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The Guardian - Culture: Film | | | God's Creatures is a watershed film starring Paul Mescal and Emily Watson that examines why rapists are protected. Why won't film distributors pick it up? | by Maeve Higgins Sep 30, 2022 | Paul Mescal, Emily Watson on why they made a film about an Irish fishing village and what it has to say about sex and control in America Whatever water we are born in is the one we must swim through. Most of us remain submerged and do what we can to simply keep swimming, but sometimes we surface. And sometimes we drown. In God’s Creatures we get to sink and soar through the waters of one Irish fishing village and their moment of reckoning. This gothic Irish drama, out this Friday in the US but still without a distributor in the UK or Ireland, tells the story of a mother (Emily Watson) lying to protect her son (Paul Mescal), and a community taking sides and shattering as a consequence. There’s a tense beauty in both the routine of a working class coastal town and it’s immense potential to break cycles of silence and violence. Continue reading... | | | | |
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