“Every new Terence Davies film feels like a miracle,” we wrote in our rave review of the British auteur’s masterful new “Sunset Song.” Stunningly adapted from Scottish author Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s ...
It’s not just the shot of a field of corn that puts one in mind of Terrence Malick when watching Terence Davies’ “Sunset Song.” Like Malick, Davies has entered a period of unprecedented productivity ...
With the stately, grounded appeal of a John Ford film from the 1940s, Terence Davies’ “Sunset Song” traces the life of a graceful young Scottish woman in the Scotland of the early 1900s. A luminous ...
Gibbon is revered for challenging cosy, romanticised depictions of Scotland with his harsh, unforgiving (some might say miserabilist) portrayal of Scottish rural life. Yet Davies remoulds the story ...
Stultifying in spots, the period drama Sunset Song marks an unexpected misstep for Terence Davies, the eccentric filmmaker whose movies evoke limbo states of memory and repressed feeling using a very ...
The movie adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 classic novel stars Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie. By Stuart Kemp Sunset Song Still - H 2014 The story is set in the early 20th ...
In an achingly lovely scene in Terence Davies' 1992 film The Long Day Closes, a little boy rests his elbows on a windowsill and gazes out at the rain slanting past his cramped tenement house in ...
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“Sunset Song” — the latest quiet work from cinemaster Terence Davies (“Distant Voices, Still Lives,” “The Long Day Closes”) — is the humanist film to beat this year. Like a less portentous “Gone with ...
SUNSET SONG is renowned English director Terence Davies’ adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Scottish novel, a drama set in rural Scotland in the years just before and during World War I. Centered on ...
Model-turned-actress Agyness Deyn holds center stage as a passionate farm woman in Terence Davies' epic drama By THR Staff Terence Davies’s emotionally resonant Sunset Song breathes life into Lewis ...
But what’s emerged, at long last, is classic Davies through and through – luminous and lyrical, sorrowful and celebratory, and, most impressive of all, shot through with an intense compassion for its ...