EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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Song of hope and despair
Agyness Deyn takes the acting honours in a classic, lyrical story of a young woman whose dreams are thwarted by her background, says MARIA DUARTE
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
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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