Sunset Song

msmichel

Davies has previously made some of the finest British film of all time ('Distant Voices', the trilogy) but his work has always veered close to the melodramatic and leaps with full abandon into it here. The film is painterly composed with warm images from d.p. Michael McDonough which hold the interest throughout but the patience is fully tested by the characterizations and a very miscast leading lady; Agyness Deyn.

Sean Patrick Stevens

The effectiveness of the lead performance makes this more than just a dreary Angela's Ashes-style melodrama as the gorgeous photography juxtaposes with the harsh realties of powerless humans in turn of the century Scotland.

Jason

This is a magnificent, thoroughly inhabitable Davies. He is as close a thing to a sure thing available in British cinema, but to ignore that he brings a new palate to the easel each go-round is to be congenitally indisposed to Heritage, and to go in already asleep. Agyness Deyn is a dynamo. Game changer. Watch her launch. Her third person voice-over is total genius. I want to merge w/ this movie and dissolve.

Kamran

Despite certain narrative issues, Sunset Song is yet another gorgeously realized Davies film boasting exceptional cinematography, a lyrical pace, and some of his best lighting to date. It has been underrated by critics choosing to compare it to Distant Voices, Still Lives, which is a fair perspective, but judged on its own merits, Sunset Song is a great film, even if, admittedly, lesser Davies. 83/100 - Great.

Carlos Filipe Freitas

Michael McDonough’s splendorous cinematography and Agyness Deyn’s delightful performance are the wild cards that prevent this drama from becoming narrower.

Babak Geranfar

Rare jewel in the wilderness of fast-food movies. The classy, elegant and masterful adaptation in Terrence Davies` "Sunset Song" takes your heart and soul to a two hour journey of "Why you have to watch the classics in Cinema". It`s a rare spirit you would hardly find in any places of today`s cinema.

A.B. II: The Return

I have to be honest: the more the film went on, the less of a point it seemed to have. The plots and characters are extremely typical of these period dramas, the second half is loaded (and I mean LOADED) with padding, and the protagonist becomes less and less interesting as things progress. It's a two-star film, elevated to three only because of the acting and cinematography.

Annie Gentil-Kraatz

It was lovely to hear the Scottish accents along the film but it was far too long and slow (several people started snoring during the film). It did also fail to move me...