But don't you long to be carried on?

[sovay]

Thanks to sasha_feather linking my review of God's Own Country (2017) in a tweet, the review has now been recommended by the film's official Twitter feed:

Your Friday treat! Some incredibly beautiful writing about God's Own Country. Make a cup of tea and enjoy it fully sovay.dreamwidth.org/984559.html

— God's Own Country (@gocfilm) June 29, 2018

I don't think this has ever happened to me before. Normally when I write about movies, especially on account of all the noir and pre-Code, the people who made them have been dead for years and certainly not checking Twitter. I do not expect to hear back from Powell and Pressburger or Derek Jarman.

Francis Lee liked it:

This is really beautiful prose ❤️ https://t.co/DwkdPByaXl

— Francis Lee (@strawhousefilms) June 29, 2018

This is wonderful.

Comments

[selenak]

Well deserved congratulations! And you know, Pressburger would have adored your essays, I'm sure of it.

[sovay]

Well deserved congratulations!

Thank you!

And you know, Pressburger would have adored your essays, I'm sure of it.

That makes me absurdly happy. Thank you.

[lauradi7dw]

Nice!

[sovay]

Nice!

Thanks!

[naraht]

Well-deserved!

[sovay]

Well-deserved!

Thank you!

[skygiants]

Dude, if I made a film and you wrote one of your essays about it I'd be shouting it to the skies. :D

[sovay]

Dude, if I made a film and you wrote one of your essays about it I'd be shouting it to the skies.

Thank you!

(You should totally make a film.)

[nineweaving]

What artist wouldn't be thrilled with such a review? If there's an afterlife, Powell and Pressburger and Derek Jarman are reading you eagerly.

Nine

[rydra_wong]

If there's an afterlife, Powell and Pressburger and Derek Jarman are reading you eagerly.

I like the mental image of them all elbow-to-elbow. I think they might get on.

[sovay]

I like the mental image of them all elbow-to-elbow. I think they might get on.

Agreed. (Also I would watch that collaboration like whoa.)

[sovay]

If there's an afterlife, Powell and Pressburger and Derek Jarman are reading you eagerly.

Thank you.

[strange_complex]

Gosh, that is some accolade! And well deserved too. :-)

[sovay]

Gosh, that is some accolade! And well deserved too.

It was totally unexpected! Thank you.

[asakiyume]

Wohoo!! This is ***wonderful***

So glad they got to see it, so glad your insights and beautiful writing is in front of people who can spread the word far and wide--and for whom what you write is a personal compliment.

[sovay]

So glad they got to see it, so glad your insights and beautiful writing is in front of people who can spread the word far and wide--and for whom what you write is a personal compliment.

Thank you. This is definitely the good part of the internet.

[osprey_archer]

Congratulations!

[sovay]

Congratulations!

Thank you!

[muccamukk]

It was a wonderful review and made me put the movie on hold at the library. Congrats on it getting the attention it deserves.

[sovay]

It was a wonderful review and made me put the movie on hold at the library. Congrats on it getting the attention it deserves.

Thank you! (And enjoy when the movie comes in!)

[rydra_wong]

How lovely for them, and for you! \o/

Also, to expand: you gave the film-makers (director and all others involved) a gift. Because a rave review is one thing, but you have the poetic skills to document your response, to show them what it's like to be a (very smart, very sensitive) person seeing their work for the first time, to give them back a reflection. And I can't imagine that's not precious.

[sovay]

How lovely for them, and for you!

Thank you!

Because a rave review is one thing, but you have the poetic skills to document your response, to show them what it's like to be a (very smart, very sensitive) person seeing their work for the first time, to give them back a reflection. And I can't imagine that's not precious.

That's what makes me happiest, I think: that they felt seen by what I wrote. And not even in the "go me, I got it right!" kind of way, but in the way where it is very important to me as a reviewer to talk about the film that exists, not the film I would have liked or the film that's not quite there, and the makers of God's Own Country recognized the film I described. And without this loop of social media I would never have known.

[lemon_badgeress]

*squeaks* Yay!

[sovay]

Yay!

Thank you! I spent a lot of time making noises at spatch.

[rosefox]

Isn't that just the best feeling? I'm so glad for you.

[sovay]

Isn't that just the best feeling? I'm so glad for you.

Thank you! I have been kind of floating about it all day.

[ethelmay]

I'm afraid I'm not on Twitter, or I'd do it myself, but I think someone should mention on those threads that sovay has a Patreon account.

[sovay]

I'm afraid I'm not on Twitter, or I'd do it myself, but I think someone should mention on those threads that sovay has a Patreon account.

Thank you. I don't have a Twitter, either, which is how this entire situation started!

[sasha_feather]

I shall go back and say so! :D

[batdina]

nice!

[sovay]

nice!

Thanks!

[pameladean]

How completely splendid! I'm so glad. (It is beautiful prose, too.

P.

[sovay]

How completely splendid! I'm so glad. (It is beautiful prose, too.

Thank you! (And thank you!)

[gwynnega]

Excellent! (And I look forward to watching that film.)

[sovay]

Excellent! (And I look forward to watching that film.)

Thank you!

[cyphomandra]

\o/ !!!

[sovay]

\o/ !!!

Thank you! I have no idea how to make an appropriate gesture back in ASCII!