Lush, Scottish drama from Terence Davies (The Deep Blue Sea), based on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel about a farming...
Lush, Scottish drama from Terence Davies (The Deep Blue Sea), based on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel about a farming family struggling to eke out a living against the devastation of World War I.
"It’s the early 20th-century in rural Scotland and Chris Guthrie is a young woman with plans. Excelling at her schooling and in possession of a burgeoning independent streak, she seems destined for a job in teaching. But family life has its own pull and her religious father exerts a formidable force on his brood, as well as on her mother whose body he treats as both refuge and battleground. As the constellation of her family shifts around her and romance comes calling, Chris grows into womanhood just as the First World War begins to devastate a generation." (London Film Festival)
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81 %118 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
50 %2,608 reviewsAudience score rating
"For sheer rapturous beauty, Terence Davies’s Sunset Song might be the film to top this year. This long-gestating adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic 1932 Scottish novel is as lyrical, immaculate and acutely evocative of period and setting as anything the British director has crafted in his criminally none-too-prolific career."
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Flicks
Flicks"We're left with little to do but admire the scenery."
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Variety
Variety"A lusty ballad of love and heartbreak sung with passion and power."
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Time Out
Time Out"The film pointedly contrasts the splendour of the Scottish landscape with the punishingly austere lives of the farmers who toil in the fields."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Deyn, in the best role of her burgeoning career, has the right mix of tenderness and tenacity to make Chris feel real in a world that often doesn't."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Reminiscent of 2015's Far From the Madding Crowd, Davies' Song is an intimate epic with a compelling heroine at its core."
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Stuff
Stuff"A moving and intimate coming of age drama."
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New Zealand Herald
New Zealand Herald""Sunset Song"... falls short of the intended cumulative effect, its emotional power undercut by its studied, episodic unfolding."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"Agyness Deyn's performance is one for the ages."
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Little White Lies
Little White Lies"Visually stunning and emotionally engrossing."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterSunset Song | Details
- Rating
- 15, strong implied sex, scene of sexual violence
- Runtime
- 136
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- UK, Luxembourg
