Insights from the Cinematic World: April 25, 2016

Terence Davies

As a filmmaker, Terence Davies is noted for his recurring themes of emotional endurance, the influence of memory on everyday life and the potentially crippling effects of dogmatic religiosity on the emotional life of individuals and societies.

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Sunset Song is Terence Davies’ intimate epic of hope, tragedy and love at the dawning of the Great War.

Sunset Song

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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.

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