Sunset Song — Trailer

added: Thu, Feb 4th '16

Here's the trailer for "Sunset Song," the sweeping romantic drama from 70-year-old British director Terence Davies (The House of Mirth, The Deep Blue Sea).

Based on the 1932 novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the film tells the story of a Scottish farming family struggling to stay afloat during in the years preceding World War I.

English fashion model-turned-actress Agyness Deyn (Clash of the Titans, Electricity) stars in the film, which features the talents of veteran Scottish actor Peter Mullan (War Horse) and Kevin Guthrie (Sunshine on Leith).

"Sunset Song," which premiered to mostly positive reviews at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, will be hitting U.S. theaters on May 13th.

synopsis:
Sunset Song is Terence Davies' intimate epic of hope, tragedy and love at the dawning of the Great War. A young woman's endurance against the hardships of rural Scottish life, based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, told with gritty poetic realism by Britain's greatest living auteur. The film takes place during the early years of the twentieth century, with the conflicts and choices a young woman experiences reflecting the struggle between tradition and change; a struggle that continues to resonate today. Set in a rural community, Sunset Song is driven by the young heroine Chris and her intense passion for life, for the unsettling Ewan and for the unforgiving land. The First World War reaches out from afar, bringing the modern world to bear on the community in the harshest possible way, yet in a final moment of grace, Chris endures, now a woman of remarkable strength who is able to draw from the ancient land in looking to the future. Sunset Song is at once epic in emotional scale and deeply romantic at its core, given power by Terence Davies’ unflinching poetic realism.

directed by Terence Davies

starring Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie

release date May 13, 2016 (in select theaters)