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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 a bright Scottish young woman named Chris, the film is a powerfully moving drama that is at once visually beautiful, in its depiction of the Scottish rural landscape, and realistic in its unblinking portrait of the harshness of working-class farm life and the devastating impact of war.
Agyness Deyn brilliantly plays the lead character, Chris Guthrie, whom we follow from her days as the brightest student in her rural school to her years as a young woman confronting the devastating horror of war from the home front. Chris is a girl who dreams of poetry and of becoming a teacher, and her kind-hearted mother Jean (Daniela Nardini) dotes on her gifted daughter,...
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 a bright Scottish young woman named Chris, the film is a powerfully moving drama that is at once visually beautiful, in its depiction of the Scottish rural landscape, and realistic in its unblinking portrait of the harshness of working-class farm life and the devastating impact of war.
Agyness Deyn brilliantly plays the lead character, Chris Guthrie, whom we follow from her days as the brightest student in her rural school to her years as a young woman confronting the devastating horror of war from the home front. Chris is a girl who dreams of poetry and of becoming a teacher, and her kind-hearted mother Jean (Daniela Nardini) dotes on her gifted daughter,...
- 6/3/2016
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Like his past work, Terence Davies’ Sunset Song sets aglow dusty memories of the past, telling a feminist story of domestic liberation that’s mythological in theme and scale despite taking place in a lonely homestead on the outskirts of rural Scotland in the early 20th century. No one does period drama quite like Davies, and his latest effort is just as transportive and lyrical as his previous work, though the story develops in a sort of inelegant, stilted way that doesn’t pay the strong-willed heroine at its center due justice.
The beating heart of the tale is a peasant farm girl, Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), tender as can be and wise beyond her years. Her strength of spirit and nurturing nature stem from a horrific upbringing under her emotionally and physically abusive father (a heart-stoppingly terrifying Peter Mullan). We watch years pass at the Guthrie home, Blawearie, as...
The beating heart of the tale is a peasant farm girl, Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), tender as can be and wise beyond her years. Her strength of spirit and nurturing nature stem from a horrific upbringing under her emotionally and physically abusive father (a heart-stoppingly terrifying Peter Mullan). We watch years pass at the Guthrie home, Blawearie, as...
- 5/13/2016
- by Bernard Boo
- We Got This Covered
Interview: Agyness Deyn on Her Breakthrough in 'Sunset Song', and How Modeling Prepared Her for Film
Jose here. Agyness Deyn doesn’t have a very long list of screen credits, she played Aphrodite in Clash of the Titans, narrated a Rihanna video, and appeared in Pusher. That will undoubtedly change once directors see her gorgeous work in Terence Davies’ Sunset Song where she plays Chris Guthrie, a Scottish farm girl trying to fend for herself in the years before Wwi. It’s a performance made of composed emotion, endless inner strength, and an otherworldly quality that makes one think of great work by Olivia de Havilland and Ingrid Bergman.
Many people will know Ms. Deyn from her work as a model, back in the mid-aughts there wasn’t an issue of Vogue where she didn’t appear. With her pixie cut, effortless chic and strong personality she brought a “punk/rock” edge to modeling. Since 2012, she’s been focusing her attention on film and Sunset Song is her first leading role.
Many people will know Ms. Deyn from her work as a model, back in the mid-aughts there wasn’t an issue of Vogue where she didn’t appear. With her pixie cut, effortless chic and strong personality she brought a “punk/rock” edge to modeling. Since 2012, she’s been focusing her attention on film and Sunset Song is her first leading role.
- 5/13/2016
- by Jose
- FilmExperience
Despite being one of the most beloved art film directors of the last 30+ years, it’s a shockingly rare occasion that we are blessed with a new picture from filmmaker Terence Davies. With only Of Time And The City, a micro-budget, rarely seen essay film, Davies saw 11 years fall between The House of Mirth and his 2011 film The Deep Blue Sea. Thankfully though, that rate appears to be shrinking as his newest film, Sunset Song, debuts in theaters this weekend, and yet another film entitled A Quiet Passion is running the festival circuit.
But let’s not get ahead of things. Sunset Song premieres in limited release this weekend, and it’s yet another stunning achievement from one of the true masters of this era. Based on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel of the same name, Song introduces us to Chris Guthrie, a young woman living with her family on...
But let’s not get ahead of things. Sunset Song premieres in limited release this weekend, and it’s yet another stunning achievement from one of the true masters of this era. Based on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel of the same name, Song introduces us to Chris Guthrie, a young woman living with her family on...
- 5/13/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Terence Davies’ films deal with repressed desire, longing, and emotional pain that springs from the depths of his characters’ souls, and yet, in person, the great British auteur is undoubtedly the funniest person in the room. He is all smiles and jokes as we sit down to discuss his glorious Sunset Song, entering a limited release this week, and a retrospective of his work at the Museum of the Moving Image. It makes sense that he is joyful rather than somber, because it makes one feel a sort of relief knowing that levity was welcomed between takes on haunting dramas such as Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Deep Blue Sea. In Sunset Song, Davies takes on the first part of a trilogy written by Lewis Grassic Gibbons, in which we meet farm girl Chris Guthrie (a luminous Agyness Deyn) as she is forced to take on the reins of her life in pre-wwi Scotland.
- 5/12/2016
- by Jose Solís
- The Film Stage
A sweeping tale of changing times in Scotland in the early 20th century, Terence Davies's new film Sunset Song centers around a farm girl Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn) in the fictional rural town of Kinraddie near Aberdeen. Chris is a thoroughly modern woman in-the-making, but held back by a still very much conservative, religious, patriarchal society and her love of the land. She is an educated girl who wants to become a teacher, an honest and noble profession, but her circumstances hold her back from achieving that goal. Her mother, even though worn out by childbearing -- six kids and counting -- and by her overbearing husband (Peter Mullan at his most brutish), still insists that there's more to life than books and studies. But after...
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- 5/12/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Piff 39: Five Films Criterion Collection Fans Should See at the Portland International Film Festival
Tomorrow night, the Northwest Film Center kicks off their 39th annual Portland International Film Festival. They’ll be screening Klaus Härö’s The Fencer as the opening night film (unfortunately the screenings are sold out, but there will be an additional showing on Sunday the 14th). Over the course of the next sixteen days there will be over 90 feature films shown around town at various theaters.
This is one of my favorite festivals that I’ve had the privilege of attending, and I cannot wait to see a some of the films that they have programmed.
As usual, we here at the site will be covering a number of the films throughout the festival, but I wanted to make sure that any local Criterion Collection fans were alerted to some of the treats that we have in store. While there are many films at the festival that will align with...
This is one of my favorite festivals that I’ve had the privilege of attending, and I cannot wait to see a some of the films that they have programmed.
As usual, we here at the site will be covering a number of the films throughout the festival, but I wanted to make sure that any local Criterion Collection fans were alerted to some of the treats that we have in store. While there are many films at the festival that will align with...
- 2/11/2016
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
Moira Armstrong suggests in her letter about Sunset Song (2 December) that publicity for the film has implied that there had been no earlier attempt to dramatise my grandfather’s novel, citing the BBC’s wonderful 1970 TV version. She should rest assured that the director Terence Davies has consistently and generously credited Vivien Heilbron’s portrayal of Chris Guthrie as his inspiration for his 15-year labour of love. She and James Naughtie (Loons and queans and orramen, G2, 25 November) were concerned about Terence’s capturing of the landscape and language. But the film’s potentially toughest critics, the current residents of “Kinraddie”, the fictional setting of the novel, gave it a resounding Doric cheer when it was shown in Arbuthnott village hall, two miles from where Lewis Grassic Gibbon was brought up, on St Andrew’s Day.
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- 12/2/2015
- by Letters
- The Guardian - Film News
"I am not frightened of you!" The official UK trailer has debuted for Terence Davis' new period romantic drama Sunset Song, about a daughter of a Scottish farmer coming of age during the early 1900s. Agyness Deyn stars as Chris Guthrie, and it's told as a sort of a triptych, with one segment focusing on her abusive father, the next when she meets and falls in love and eventually marries Ewan, played by Kevin Guthrie; finally, he goes off to fight in World War I and comes back shellshocked and violent, resembling her father. The cast includes Peter Mullan, Jack Greenlees, Niall Greig Fulton and Ian Pirie. This looks very powerful. Here's the first official trailer for Terence Davies' Sunset Song, from The Guardian (via The Film Stage): The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s. Terence Davies's adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbons's novel,...
- 11/10/2015
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Sunset Song is Terence Davies’s touching epic of love, hope, and tragedy at the dawn of the Great War. The story centers on a young woman, Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), and the hardship of living in rural Scotland at the time, while looking at the themes of patriarchal and dysfunctional family life whose exploration originally hailed Davies as an auteur.Fernando F. Croce, covering the film for the Notebook, wrote from Toronto:"A passion project for the great British filmmaker with a decade-long production history of false starts, this adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 Scottish novel emerges as a full-bodied reverie of faces and landscapes, splendor and pain."We talked to Terence Davies following the world premiere of Sunset Song at the Toronto International Film Festival. This conversation contains spoilers of the film’s story.Notebook: What made you interested in this novel? How did it fit with your personality as a filmmaker?...
- 10/15/2015
- by Amir Ganjavie
- MUBI
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to "Sunset Song," and plans to release the film theatrically in Spring 2016. Adapted from the influential 1932 Scottish novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the film stretches a few significant years in the life of Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), who learns love and sex the hard way over a harvest cycle of trials and tragedies. This is a surprising acquisition from Magnolia, which also picked up Norwegian Oscar entry "The Wave" out of Tiff. Like any Davies film, "Sunset Song" won't be an easy sell stateside. But for patient viewers looking for knockout tableaux and the sort of slow cinema of storytelling yesteryear that Davies has dedicated his life's work to, "Sunset Song" is a rapturous, ravishing swell of a movie. Read More: Toronto Review: Terence Davies and Agyness Deyn Conjure Tremulous Beauty in 'Sunset Song'...
- 9/18/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
This is a capsule review. A full review will be posted closer to release.
From its opening title cards onward, Sunset Song is promising nothing more or less than a respectful adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel of the same name. An emotional crockpot that slowly plays out over a verdant plot of Scottish farmland, Sunset Song is an impeccable celluloid translation of what it’s like to read an engrossing weepy. This makes the film liable to having chapters more sleepy than sweeping, but the greater whole is brought to life with clearness of purpose, and earnestness of feeling.
Director and adaptor Terence Davies transports you to Gibbon’s harsh but romantic story of a country lass learning to make her life her own. As the young but steadfast Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn) sees her family taken away from her over a short span of years, she digs...
From its opening title cards onward, Sunset Song is promising nothing more or less than a respectful adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel of the same name. An emotional crockpot that slowly plays out over a verdant plot of Scottish farmland, Sunset Song is an impeccable celluloid translation of what it’s like to read an engrossing weepy. This makes the film liable to having chapters more sleepy than sweeping, but the greater whole is brought to life with clearness of purpose, and earnestness of feeling.
Director and adaptor Terence Davies transports you to Gibbon’s harsh but romantic story of a country lass learning to make her life her own. As the young but steadfast Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn) sees her family taken away from her over a short span of years, she digs...
- 9/18/2015
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
★★★☆☆ Earth is the fundamental element of Terence Davis' sumptuous Sunset Song (2015), a lyrical adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 novel. Like an elegant love letter to the Scottish soil and the endurance of the people it sired, it makes full use of its anamorphic 65mm format with Michael McDonough's stunning landscape compositions. Within them lies the estate of Kinraddie in rural Aberdeenshire where the narrative charts the difficulties suffered by Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn) as she navigates early womanhood. While there is hardship and anguish, Davis' deliberate and treatment of the source material ultimately lessens the dramatic impact even while it retains its splendour.
- 9/16/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Sunlight settling nervously on a kitchen chair; rainwater filling up a shallow gully; endless panoramic stretches of billowing fields. If these elements don't appeal to you, neither do the films of Terence Davies, the English screenwriter and director responsible for "The Deep Blue Sea," "The House of Mirth" and "Distant Voices, Still Loves," whose gifts are exclusively for the patient. His films have always captured the yearning of the repressed, which can be said for the director himself, whose latest stately, stunning and, at times, anesthetizing literary adaptation is "Sunset Song." Adapted from the influential 1932 Scottish novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the film stretches a few significant years in the life of Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), who learns love and sex the hard way over a harvest cycle of trials and tragedies. As manifested by Davies, it's also clearly a feminist work, with Chris finding liberation and even a fleeting little.
- 9/15/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Sunset Song
Director: Terence Davies // Writers: Terence Davies, Lewis Crassic Gribbon
While his famous early works were inspired around his incredibly bleak childhood, with a famed trilogy of shorts followed by Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and The Long Day Closes (1992), the infrequently working auteur Terence Davies has seemed keen on adapting pieces of classic literature, including John Kennedy Toole’s The Neon Bible (1995), Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (2000), and most recently the Terence Ratigan play The Deep Blue Sea (2011), which starred Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston. Another four years have passed and we’re at last hoping to see Davies’ latest, Sunset Song, based on a the 1932 classic Scottish title from Lewis Crassic Gribbon, which is centered on the strong female protagonist Chris Guthrie, growing up amongst a dysfunctional family in the north east of Scotland in 1900. Actress Agyness Deyn will have the chance to prove herself and...
Director: Terence Davies // Writers: Terence Davies, Lewis Crassic Gribbon
While his famous early works were inspired around his incredibly bleak childhood, with a famed trilogy of shorts followed by Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and The Long Day Closes (1992), the infrequently working auteur Terence Davies has seemed keen on adapting pieces of classic literature, including John Kennedy Toole’s The Neon Bible (1995), Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (2000), and most recently the Terence Ratigan play The Deep Blue Sea (2011), which starred Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston. Another four years have passed and we’re at last hoping to see Davies’ latest, Sunset Song, based on a the 1932 classic Scottish title from Lewis Crassic Gribbon, which is centered on the strong female protagonist Chris Guthrie, growing up amongst a dysfunctional family in the north east of Scotland in 1900. Actress Agyness Deyn will have the chance to prove herself and...
- 1/8/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Any day that British filmmaking legend Terence Davies gets back behind the camera is a good one, and, as the picture below reveals, today is just such a day. His latest project is Sunset Song, a period drama based on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel of the same name. The Scottish leg of its shoot has just gone underway, involving Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Sunshine On Leith’s Kevin Guthrie.As the official synopsis explains, Sunset Song “is set in the early 20th Century in north-east Scotland, where Deyn plays Chris Guthrie, a young woman coming of age as her family is beset by tragedy.” With the guns of the Great War rumbling on the continent, the world is thrown into a state of flux and social turmoil. “In a final moment of grace”, continues the précis, “Chris endures with remarkable fortitude, looking to the future and drawing strength...
- 4/29/2014
- EmpireOnline
Sunset Song
Director: Terence Davies
Writer: Terence Davies
Producers: Sol Papadopoulos, Roy Boulter
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan
The bad news is that there are needle in a haystack chances that we’ll see a Terence Davies project released this year. The good news is that the Liverpool filmmaker behind quintessential classics Distant Voices, Still Lives, The House of Mirth, and the lush The Deep Blue Sea has a total of three projects in development.
Gist: Set in the early 20th century, Chris Guthrie, a farmer’s daughter in north-eastern Scotland struggles for love amid hardship and family misfortune. After her mother, a poverty-stricken woman broken by repeated childbirths, poisons herself and her baby twins the resilient young Chris must manage the farm in her absence. When her father has a stroke and becomes bedridden, though also eager for an incestuous relationship, she is left...
Director: Terence Davies
Writer: Terence Davies
Producers: Sol Papadopoulos, Roy Boulter
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan
The bad news is that there are needle in a haystack chances that we’ll see a Terence Davies project released this year. The good news is that the Liverpool filmmaker behind quintessential classics Distant Voices, Still Lives, The House of Mirth, and the lush The Deep Blue Sea has a total of three projects in development.
Gist: Set in the early 20th century, Chris Guthrie, a farmer’s daughter in north-eastern Scotland struggles for love amid hardship and family misfortune. After her mother, a poverty-stricken woman broken by repeated childbirths, poisons herself and her baby twins the resilient young Chris must manage the farm in her absence. When her father has a stroke and becomes bedridden, though also eager for an incestuous relationship, she is left...
- 2/25/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Versatile Danish thesp Mads Mikkelsen is set to team with "Man On A Ledge" helmer Asger Leth for road film "Move On." Developed by Matt Greenhalgh (screenwriter of "Control" and "Nowhere Boy"), the story begins with a flawed hero, stepping off a boat in Rotterdam before traveling across Europe to deliver a mysterious silver suitcase. Lensing will take the production across eight different countries in a hectic 30-day chronological shoot, and will unusually involve the participation of film fans from 11 countries in areas such as casting, location and props. More details can be found at the film's website, but each country's shoot will make up a 5-8 minute segment of the movie, with a shoot commencing this summer before a September unveiling. [ScreenDaily]
After debuting in the upcoming remake of Nicolas Winding Refn's "Pusher," and an acclaimed run on London's West End, model Agyness Deyn is moving up in the acting world.
After debuting in the upcoming remake of Nicolas Winding Refn's "Pusher," and an acclaimed run on London's West End, model Agyness Deyn is moving up in the acting world.
- 5/17/2012
- by Simon Dang
- The Playlist
Three months ago, we learned that Terence Davies had already lined up his next project (and would thereby not be repeating the 11-year gap between his two most-recent narrative efforts, The House of Mirth and The Deep Blue Sea). Titled Sunset Song, the film is an adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibson’s 1932 novel, and we’ve just received our first bit of casting information: Peter Mullan and Agyness Deyn will play the two key roles. [Empire]
After giving a pair of aggressive, brute-force turns in Tyrannosaur and War Horse, Mullan‘s grizzled face is likely fresh in your memory, and he sounds like the perfect man to play a fatherly role described as “bruising.” Meanwhile, Deyn, who will be seen in Luis Prieto‘s Pusher remake, looks like she’ll be shouldering most of Sunset Song‘s narrative weight, as her character — Chris Guthrie, the “grieving daughter” — essentially comprises the entirety...
After giving a pair of aggressive, brute-force turns in Tyrannosaur and War Horse, Mullan‘s grizzled face is likely fresh in your memory, and he sounds like the perfect man to play a fatherly role described as “bruising.” Meanwhile, Deyn, who will be seen in Luis Prieto‘s Pusher remake, looks like she’ll be shouldering most of Sunset Song‘s narrative weight, as her character — Chris Guthrie, the “grieving daughter” — essentially comprises the entirety...
- 5/16/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
All the latest news, reviews, comment and buzz from the Croisette, as it happens
9.53am: Bonjour mesdames et messieurs, it's Wednesday 16th May and that can only mean one thing: the 2012 Cannes film festival is open for business. They've dusted down the red carpet, springcleaned the cinemas, and installed thousands of metal barriers for the 12-day frenzy of film on the Riviera.
Right around now the world's critics are pushing and shoving their way into the press screening for Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, the festival opener; in a couple of hours from now we'll know whether it's hot... or not.
We've sent a crack team out to the Croisette to bring you all the news, reviews and reactions: Peter Bradshaw, Xan Brooks, Catherine Shoard, Charlotte Higgins, Jason Solomons, Henry Barnes and Elliot Smith. We'll also be running a daily live blog to be your one-stop shop for all things Cannes-related.
9.53am: Bonjour mesdames et messieurs, it's Wednesday 16th May and that can only mean one thing: the 2012 Cannes film festival is open for business. They've dusted down the red carpet, springcleaned the cinemas, and installed thousands of metal barriers for the 12-day frenzy of film on the Riviera.
Right around now the world's critics are pushing and shoving their way into the press screening for Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, the festival opener; in a couple of hours from now we'll know whether it's hot... or not.
We've sent a crack team out to the Croisette to bring you all the news, reviews and reactions: Peter Bradshaw, Xan Brooks, Catherine Shoard, Charlotte Higgins, Jason Solomons, Henry Barnes and Elliot Smith. We'll also be running a daily live blog to be your one-stop shop for all things Cannes-related.
- 5/16/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
British supermodel Agyness Deyn has landed her first major film role in a big screen adaptation of popular novel Sunset Song.
The blonde catwalk queen has spent several years boosting her acting resume, shooting small roles in Clash of the Titans and a remake of 1996's Pusher, as well as landing an acclaimed part in The Leisure Society in London's West End earlier this year.
She has now been chosen to play the lead, Chris Guthrie, in a big screen take of writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon's tale of social hardship in 1930s Scotland.
Filmmaker Terence Davies will direct the movie, while War Horse actor Peter Mullan will co-star.
Deyn tells Vogue, "When I read the script I fell completely in love with the character and the story, I'm so honoured and excited to be working with Terence, he's such an incredible director.
"I can't wait to get started and just hope that I can do Chris Guthrie justice!"...
The blonde catwalk queen has spent several years boosting her acting resume, shooting small roles in Clash of the Titans and a remake of 1996's Pusher, as well as landing an acclaimed part in The Leisure Society in London's West End earlier this year.
She has now been chosen to play the lead, Chris Guthrie, in a big screen take of writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon's tale of social hardship in 1930s Scotland.
Filmmaker Terence Davies will direct the movie, while War Horse actor Peter Mullan will co-star.
Deyn tells Vogue, "When I read the script I fell completely in love with the character and the story, I'm so honoured and excited to be working with Terence, he's such an incredible director.
"I can't wait to get started and just hope that I can do Chris Guthrie justice!"...
- 5/16/2012
- WENN
It was a long time between drinks for Terence Davies - excluding, of course, his terrific documentary work - but he seems to have rediscovered the bug for feature filmmaking. His next film, Sunset Song, is coming to fruition and has kicked off Cannes by adding Peter Mullan and Agyness Deyn to its cast roster and scoring an international distribution deal with Fortissimo Films. Like his last film, The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song is a period piece with literary roots. In this case, the adaptation stems from a novel rather than a stage play: Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 tale of family dysfunction and rural life in north east Scotland. It's been another Davies project with a tough infancy. The UK Film Council quailed at its tough subject matter and, according to the director, withdrew funding in 2006; understandable perhaps, considering the story kicks off with suicide and a double infanticide.
- 5/16/2012
- EmpireOnline
It would appear that director Terence Davies – who brought us the elegant and superb The Deep Blue Sea last year – isn’t going to have to wait as long between feature films this time. And it also means one of his long-cherished passion projects might finally see the screen, with word that his adaptation of Sunset Song may be coming together at last.Producer Bob Last, who worked with Davies on The House Of Mirth back in 2000, has announced that the film is now entering the casting stage, with shooting set for either later this year or early 2013 in Scotland and Sweden.Lewis Grassic Gibbon wrote the novel in 1932, and it focuses on Chris Guthrie, a farmer’s daughter struggling through a tough life filled with pain and family dysfunction. Davies has been trying to get the film version made for more than a decade now, but faced constant obstacles...
- 2/16/2012
- EmpireOnline
Only about a month before his latest, The Deep Blue Sea, hits U.S. shores (ha ha!) in a limited capacity, Variety reports that Terrence Davies has lined up his next project, Sunset Song. Based on Scottish author Lewis Grassic Gibson‘s acclaimed novel, the early 20th-century-set picture — a “passion project” of the English director’s for years — tells “the story of a farmer’s daughter in northern Scotland struggling for love amid hardship and family misfortune.” Bob Last will produce the picture alongside Hurricane Films, with production expected to get underway at the end of this year or the start of 2013.
That (minimal) update is the most we’ve got on Sunset Song at the moment — and I don’t expect that to change until some actual casting gets into motion, which could itself be a while — though I’m already intrigued to just the smallest of degrees, if...
That (minimal) update is the most we’ve got on Sunset Song at the moment — and I don’t expect that to change until some actual casting gets into motion, which could itself be a while — though I’m already intrigued to just the smallest of degrees, if...
- 2/16/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Considering Terence Davies tends to take years between pictures, this next bit of news is a bit of surprise, as it seems the helmer isn't wasting any time getting to his next movie. Hot on the heels of his latest effort, the lavish and lovely "The Deep Blue Sea," starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston, which premiered at Tiff last year, his next effort may seem him behind the camera by year's end. Variety reports that Davies is set helm his long-gestating passion project "Sunset Song," an adapation of the classic Scottish novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Written in 1932, the story centers on Chris Guthrie, a farmer's daughter who struggles to find love admist hardship and family dysfunction. The tough nature of the material has apparently made it a diffcult project to finance, with Davies developing it for the past decade. How dark is it? The story opens with Chris'...
- 2/16/2012
- The Playlist
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