Sunset Song

Sunset song starts with a lyrical and rambunctious prelude in near enough untrammeled aberdeenshire dialect tracing the history of the area from the 12th century when gryphons and suchlike beasts still roamed the scots countryside onto the local career of william wallace the jacobites and on up to the eccentric families that populate the.

Sunset song. The film takes place during the early years of the twentieth century with the conflicts and choices. 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 terence davies. Directed by terence davies. Sunset song is a 2015 british drama film directed by terence davies and starring agyness deyn peter mullan and kevin guthrie it is an adaptation of lewis grassic gibbon s novel of the same name it was shown in the special presentations section of the 2015 toronto international film festival and was released in the united kingdom on 4 december 2015.

Sunset song is an intimate epic of hope tragedy and love at the dawning of the great war. Chris lives with her family on a bleak farm in north east scotland at the beginning of the c. There have been several adaptations including a 1971 television series by bbc scotland a 2015 film version and some stage versions. Yet the traditional and the progressive are actually in conflict from the outset.

It is the first part of the trilogy a scots quair. Sunset song s euphoric opening minutes would have you think that turn of the century scotland is a veritable paradise. Sunset song is the first part of a trilogy by lewis grassic gibbon called a scots quair. A young woman s endurance against the hardships of rural scottish life based on the novel.

Sunset song is terence davies intimate epic of hope tragedy and love at the dawning of the great war. Vast swaying cornfields sunny avenues talk of socialism and work in far off aberdeen and a remarkably modern seeming education system. It is followed by cloud howe and finally grey granite. With vivien heilbron edith macarthur paul young andrew keir.

With ken blackburn mark bonnar stuart bowman emily jane boyle. Sunset song about a rural scottish girl growing to womanhood in the years before world war i is one of the great director terence davies best films. It tells the story of chris guthrie.