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"A beautifully made and deeply felt adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel of rural Scotland before the first world war, “ “Davies’s careful, patient visual sense brings out the Hardyesque nature of this story..” “this primal contrast of human suffering with natural beauty is a paradigm that persists in resurfacing in British social realist movies today."

- Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN

"Sunset Song is a hymn to the enduring power of the great outdoors, out-Malicking Terrence Malick in its obsession with earth, wind and fire"

- EMPIRE

".. luminous and lyrical, sorrowful and celebratory, and, most impressive of all, shot through with an intense compassion for its characters, good and bad alike..” “Sunset Song is quietly devastating in its emotional impact, but its passions are held firmly in check. And Davies’s masterful exploration of his underlying themes – the strength of the human spirit, the wonders of nature, even the brutality and fickleness of fate – sweeps everything before them"

- THE ARTS DESK

"The lyricism of director Terence Davies is unlike the work of any other British director and worth celebrating"

- THE SPECTATOR

"Davies’ painterly style is deeply romantic"

- THE TIMES

" He knows a story that is worth telling. He knows how to tell it. And he knows how to make it tell, hours, days or, with his best films, even years after it has been told."

- THE FINANCIAL TIMES

"Stirring & gorgeous"

- TIME OUT

" Beautiful, utterly, heartbreakingly.... Davies has done the novel, and Scotland, proud"

- THE HERALD

"Agyness Deyn is the star of Terence Davies’ rhapsodic Sunset Song...she inhabits the soul of this beleaguered waif. It’s a sensational performance: generous, tender and discreetly controlled"

- LITTLE WHITE LIES

"Ken Loach meets Vogue in this rhapsodically beautiful from British director Terence Davies"

- Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, METRO

"An epic Scots drama that is beautifully staged and adapted, British director Terence Davies’ absorbing film is a real visual treat"

- Mark Adams, SUNDAY MIRROR

"A warm, intimate epic of Scots rural life from Terence Davies, filmed with palpable affection and framing a central performance of emotional intensity"

- Phillip Kemp, TOTAL FILM

"A ballad of love and heartbreak... the sheer grandeur sweeps you along"

- Tom Huddleston, TIME OUT

".. a tour de force of drama, composition and color."

- David D''Arcy, SCREEN DAILY

"Visually stunning and emotionally engrossing. The painterly visuals of Davies’s films are more achingly beautiful than ever here."

- Deborah Young, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"Agyness Deyn shines in Terence Davies' lolling romantic drama...Davies, perhaps British cinema’s pre-eminent nostalgist, has made a film that’s perfectly suited to the too-big screen. His adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel is packed with emotional bombast, almost relentless in its lushness... Davies recently said that he doesn’t understand the modern world, preferring a romantic version “that doesn’t quite exist anymore”. With Sunset Song he’s again made a prize of beauty and found peace in the past."

- Henry Barnes, THE GUARDIAN

"Agyness Deyn makes a striking lead as Chris Guthrie, who struggles to escape the shadow of her ferociously religious father (Peter Mullan, doing his Peter Mullan thing) and define herself as her own woman... Davies glides the story gracefully through time, finding beauty in Chris’s world as well as despair and letting her struggle for independence stand as the proto-feminist choice it is."

- Norman Wilner, NOW

"A luminous performance by Agyness Deyn."

- NY Times

"Superb."

- The New Yorker

"Impeccable direction."

- The Nation

"Masterful."

- LA WEEKLY

"Close to flawless. A ballad of love and heartbreak sung with passion"

- Time Out New York

"Michael McDonough's landscape cinematography is rapturous. The sheer visual grandeur sweeps you along."

- Time Out New York

"Critics’ Choice."

- The Village Voice

"A film that demands to be seen. Terence Davies Hits a New High Note With the Gorgeous Sunset Song."

- Indiewire

" One of the great director Terence Davies' best films."

- RogerEbert.com

"Captivating."

- New York Post