Sunset Song

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Alain E Well acted and photographed but the ultimate message is that life sucks. A Scottish farm girl is raised in a family led by a tyrannical father who pushes her mother to suicide. When the father finally dies it seems that she has the opportunity to get married and chart her own course. Soon WW I starts and her husband enlists. When he returns home for a brief visit he has become a violent abusive man. Sometime later he gets killed. The girl is left alone. Curtain with bagpipes. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/23/25 Full Review Ian E Visually stunning - in line with the source novel - the framing, production design, cinematography, elegies to the land(scapes) and meticulous inside shots were off the scale incredible. So much so that you have to question whether Terrence Davies also cast his actors to fit in with the aesthetic? And how much time was spent placing the extras into position for the 'Vermeer' shots? Why else would he have cast a skinny Mancunian supermodel who couldn't act her way out of a paper bag but looked stunning, in the lead role? Which begs a question - if physically or emotionally impaired actors have now to play those types of characters, and racial and sexual orientation appropriate casting takes place. Why are rosy cheeked burley Scottish farmer's wives capable of pulling a calf out of it's mother; not played by people who look like rosy cheeked burley Scottish farmer's wives....? Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/11/24 Full Review Alec B It's visual beauty is offset by the fact that the main character remains a cypher from begging to end. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 12/14/23 Full Review isla s This is a fairly bleak film (certainly for just about the first hour) and I don't mean its a continual blood fest or anything but the plot is very much about an atmosphere of sustained threat and violence, with abuse present. There are some scenes which are hard to watch without flinching. There is some interesting dialogue and nice surroundings shown occasionally (I'd have liked to see more of the wheat fields outside and the surrounding land but most of it is set inside a small house (cottage) and the adjoining barn/stable) and the cast do a decent enough job, although I didn't feel there was quite enough in the way of a clear substance to the plot, to set it apart from other similar films. Its certainly not a bad film (indeed I found the main character (Christine) admirable in a way) but it's not especially great or memorable either - just ok. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This is horrendous. If you don't want to read the book, then look for this on YouTube. BBC did the series ( 1970's) that is far more accurate and has the guts and atmosphere this sorely lacks. Sorry, but Chrissie is so badly portrayed in this new version, (and seems to have a hard Glaswegian accent, although it's set in Aberdeenshire) Peter Mullen gives a great performance but stands out like a sore thumb as the other actors are so poor in comparison. Save your money. This is a truly horrendous rendition of a great book. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Shockingly boring ! a woman who is continually abused by men just horrible and her mothers only advise was to kill herself! A fail in my world ! Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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