2015 · drama · british
Sunset Song
Directed by Terence Davies2h 15m2015
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
Our read: Sunset Song (2015) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · british entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / british, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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