When he dies of a stroke, she finally comes into her inheritance, abandoning plans for a career as a teacher to work the family farm. The British director has a taste for period pieces featuring strong women ( The House of Mirth The Deep Blue Sea) and Sunset Song is the story of its sensitive and intelligent heroine, Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn.) After her mother kills herself and twin babies rather than face another pregnancy, the Guthries are dispersed, leaving Chris alone with her tyrannical father (Peter Mullan). The thing is, to judge from Davies's uneven and melodramatic film, there is very little to lament about the disappearance of premodern Scotland. It seems to do its job well and to provide a source of pride and pleasure for the irascible patriarch John Guthrie, a man who is otherwise miserable.
So, in Terence Davies's baffling new adaptation of the 1932 book by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, a mechanical thresher makes an appearance early in the film.
As its title suggests, the classic Scottish novel Sunset Song is partly an elegy, a lament for a bond between the folk and the land that is weakened by mechanization and the Great War.
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