Stephen Frears and his movies exist in the vast landscape of film I'm not familiar with, but I love the way you describe the ambience of this, though I'm not sure I'd actually like it if I saw it. But a screen full of immense space and light, the kind of sky that can swallow you sounds wonderful, as do a dusty gas station and a haze-veiled waterfall, and the fact that both may offer either transcendence or horror.

ETA... spelling correction