WINTER Light

“Winter Light” is the story on which the film GOD’S COUNTRY, directed by Julian Higgins and starring Thandiwe Newton, Jeremy Bobb, Joris Jarsky, Jefferson White, Kai Lennox, and Tanaya Beatty, is based. 

GOD’S COUNTRY is coming to theaters nationwide on September 16, 2022.

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JLB on GOD’S COUNTRY

Two nights ago, we attended a private screening of Julian Higgins’s movie GOD’S COUNTRY. The reaction of the audience was one I have seen only once before, and that was at the end of UNITED 93. The audience was obviously stunned. They were totally silent, immobile, suspended in time, and breathless. I had the same reaction. This film is not only remarkable, it’s one that will be taught in film classes for many years.

This is not hyperbole. Julian Higgins is a young genius who has made four films, and I think his career is just getting started. His work is reminiscent of Van Gogh and Pieter Bruegel. Every detail means something — the kind of beer the villain buys in the store, a burning cigarette dropped on a snowbank, the windows in a house that seem to form a cross. This is the kind of talent you see only in directors such as George Stevens and John Ford and Francis Ford Coppola.

Prepare yourself for the ending. After two days I’m still thinking about it, and I wrote the short story on which the script was built.