In 'Sunset Song', the legendary British director, Terence
Davies, tells the story of a young woman coming of age on a farm in northern
Scotland on the cusp of WW1. Chris Guthrie, a bright young woman with a real
love of learning and dreams of becoming a schoolteacher, is fighting her own
war against her fiery, brutish father, who abuses both her mother and brother.
Her struggle for independence against all odds provides the film with its
deeply resonating emotional core, but the film is also closely attuned to the
moods of landscape and sky which are breathtakingly beautiful (shot in both
Scotland and New Zealand). The film is one of Davies's finest
achievements.
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