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Sunset Song

2015

Terence Davies

Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie, Mark Bonnar ...

5.8

1,558

Romance. Drama Set in North East Scotland Deyn will play a daughter of a poverty stricken farmer who falls in love with Mullan only to have him sent to fight the war.

	Media	Author	Review
		Tom Huddleston Time Out	"A lusty ballad of love and heartbreak sung with passion and power (...) Davies's love for his characters is impossible to conceal (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five"
		Nikola Grozdanovic IndieWire	"With his monumental control of the camera (...) Davies directs the most refined coming-of-age story cinema has seen in recent years (...) 'Sunset Song' is a remarkable experience"
		Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"It is a rare director who dares to embrace the slow, meditative rhythms of a classic novel (...) but Davies uses the measured pace to unfold his poetic vision of the Scottish peasantry and their attachment to the land"
		Henry Barnes The Guardian	"Davies recently said that he doesn’t understand the modern world, preferring a romantic version “that doesn’t quite exist anymore”. With Sunset Song he’s again made a prize of beauty and found peace in the past (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"
		Tim Robey Telegraph	"There are gorgeous things about it, there’s one really good performance, and reminders of Davies’ transcendent style ripple through the film. But it also feels broken and cumbersome (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"Davies gives the book's - and its heroine's - sense of the agony and the ecstasy of growing up a gloriously personal touch. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"
		Guy Lodge Empire	"Davies' beautifully composed adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel suffers from an overly genteel approach (...) We're left with little to do but admire the scenery"
		Peter Debruge Variety	"We're left with little to do but admire the scenery."
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Like most of Mr. Davies’s films, 'Sunset Song' makes you see the world through his sorrowful eyes. He is a die-hard romantic, whose acute sensitivity to the passage of time conveys a bittersweet awareness of the fragility of beauty, which, for him, is synonymous with melancholy."

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