Sunset Song

Sunset Song

Drama 2016 2 hr 15 min
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Sunset Song is Terence Davies’ intimate epic of hope, tragedy and love at the dawning of the Great War. A young woman’s endurance against the hardships of rural Scottish life, based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, told with gritty poetic realism by Britain’s greatest living auteur. The film takes place during the early years of the twentieth century, with the conflicts and choices a young woman experiences reflecting the struggle between tradition and change; a struggle that continues to resonate today. Set in a rural community, Sunset Song is driven by the young heroine Chris and her intense passion for life, for the unsettling Ewan and for the unforgiving land. The First World War reaches out from afar, bringing the modern world to bear on the community in the harshest possible way, yet in a final moment of grace, Chris endures, now a woman of remarkable strength who is able to draw from the ancient land in looking to the future. Sunset Song is at once epic in emotional scale and deeply romantic at its core, given power by Terence Davies’ unflinching poetic realism.
Drama 2016 2 hr 15 min
81% 15+
Starring Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie
Director Terence Davies

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Sunset Song is Terence Davies’ intimate epic of hope, tragedy and love at the dawning of the Great War. A young woman’s endurance against the hardships of rural Scottish life, based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, told with gritty poetic realism by Britain’s greatest living auteur. The film takes place during the early years of the twentieth century, with the conflicts and choices a young woman experiences reflecting the struggle between tradition and change; a struggle that continues to resonate today. Set in a rural community, Sunset Song is driven by the young heroine Chris and her intense passion for life, for the unsettling Ewan and for the unforgiving land. The First World War reaches out from afar, bringing the modern world to bear on the community in the harshest possible way, yet in a final moment of grace, Chris endures, now a woman of remarkable strength who is able to draw from the ancient land in looking to the future. Sunset Song is at once epic in emotional scale and deeply romantic at its core, given power by Terence Davies’ unflinching poetic realism.
15+ COMMON SENSE

Serious period drama is picturesque but slow-moving.

81% TOMATOMETER

  • Average 7.4
  • Reviews 114
  • Fresh 92
  • Rotten 22

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Studio
Hurricane Films
Genre
Drama
Released
2016
Run Time
2 hr 15 min
Rated
R

© 2015 Sunset Song Ltd/ Iris Productions/ The British Film Institute

Languages

Primary
English (AAC, Dolby 5.1, Dolby 5.1 Plus, CC, Subtitles)

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.

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