Sunset Song's reviews
Media reviews
Empire
Deyn is a revelation in a difficult but rewarding take on Scottish rural life. The most English of directors has done a Scottish classic proud.
Fotogramas
Beautiful chronic on the inexorable passage of time. A sumptuous praise to the resistance of a woman to the adversities of life that glorifies a style of country life hopelessly earthbound.
Cinemanía
Terence Davies gorgeous, which adapts the classic Scottish novel. A wonderful story of love between two people ahead of their time emotionally.
The Hollywood Reporter
It is a rare director who dares to embrace the slow, meditative rhythms of a classic novel without feeling the need to modernize or accelerate it, but Davies uses the measured pace to unfold his poetic vision of the Scottish peasantry and their attachment to the land.
The Guardian
It?s all fairly indulgent. But Sunset Song also has a viciousness that stops it falling too deep into a slumber.
Variety
In full anamorphic 65mm splendor, the resulting landscapes are lovely, as is the face of relative newcomer Agyness Deyn in the role of hardy Scottish heroine Chris Guthrie, although the underlying feelings are all but lost, rendered in a difficult-to-fathom Scottish dialect and withheld by Davies? overly genteel directorial approach.