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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
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
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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