5/31/2023 0 Comments The sunset song bookBut after her parents die in quick succession (in separate, gravely dramatic incidents) she marries Ewan Tavendale (Kevin Guthrie), a young farmhand, and settles down with him on her family’s property, until they’re wrenched apart by his military service in the war. “Sunset Song,” based on the 1932 novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, traces the fortunes of a young woman, Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), who lives in an isolated farm village in Scotland, from around 1910 until the end of the First World War.īrutalized by her tyrannical father (Peter Mullan) and unprotected by her long-suffering mother (Daniela Nardini), the sharp-minded Chris plans to leave the farm and become a teacher. None of his dramatic features are set in the present day, and whether he is filming his own childhood experience (as in his first features, “Distant Voices, Still Lives” and “The Long Day Closes”) or adapting works of literature, his subject is memory, and its blend of the intimate with the historical. Davies’s career-long obsession is emotional archeology.
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