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Sunset Song (15)
Directed by Terence Davies
3/5
THE SCOTTISH peasantry and the enduring power of the land are at the core of Terence Davies’s new epic drama which took some 15 years in production due to financing difficulties.
Based on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 classic Scottish novel, it is driven by a young and forthright heroine Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn) who, in the early 1900s, is forced to give up her dreams of becoming a teacher to take care of her father and the family farm when her mother commits suicide.
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