A gentle, yet sorrowful tale about a young girl, residing along the beautiful countryside of Scotland, emerging into womanhood. This is a film with soul, a film with beauty busting through the seams, a film with purpose.
I havent seen a film this stunning since The Tree of Life, Davies and Malick are like brothers tethered by symbolism and rich symmetry.
I feel in a way the first half of this film is protecting us from the pain we hear through screams of women in childbirth, the sounds of sobs when someone passes, we see reactions from the characters, Davies wants us to view their emotions, to view their reactions to pain, but to never see the root of it, only the sounds, only the melodies. But later on, we see the root of it, we see and hear, and its heartbreaking.
The scene at the wedding, where they sing Auld Lang Syne, a song that makes me weep, a song that fills me with nostalgia but always makes me want to be embrace hope and change, this scene grabbed me. To isolate the vocals of Agyness Deyn during the line We'll take a cup of kindness yet, my favorite lyric, my favorite pairing of words, its such a beautiful moment, its such a lasting and beautiful moment.
The meaning of Auld Lang Syne is simply Is it right that old times be forgotten? how pertinent, oh so very pertinent.
"There are lovely things in this world—lovely that do not endure, and the lovelier for that.
Natalie Portman deserves the Oscar for Lead Actress this year, but if not her, it is rightfully Agyness Deyn's.
Sunset Song is textured, layered, but incredibly simple all the same. People, pain, love, beauty, they all come and go, but our land, our land remains. And through it all, through being a daughter, a wife, a mother, Chris never truly gets to be herself, through forgiveness and loss, through quiet bravery, all we are left with in the end of it all is ourselves; the discovery of our true selves. And oh, what a cherished gift that is.
Life can still be good harvest in spite of things.
A spring of life ... sing it, cherish it. It will never come again.
A gentle, yet sorrowful tale about a young girl, residing along the beautiful countryside of Scotland, emerging into womanhood. This is a film with soul, a film with beauty busting through the seams, a film with purpose.
I havent seen a film this stunning since The Tree of Life, Davies and Malick are like brothers tethered by symbolism and rich symmetry.
I feel in a way the first half of this film is protecting us from the pain we hear through screams of women in childbirth, the sounds of sobs when someone passes, we see reactions from the characters, Davies wants us to view their emotions, to view their reactions to pain, but to never see the root of it, only the sounds, only the melodies. But later on, we see the root of it, we see and hear, and its heartbreaking.
The scene at the wedding, where they sing Auld Lang Syne, a song that makes me weep, a song that fills me with nostalgia but always makes me want to be embrace hope and change, this scene grabbed me. To isolate the vocals of Agyness Deyn during the line We'll take a cup of kindness yet, my favorite lyric, my favorite pairing of words, its such a beautiful moment, its such a lasting and beautiful moment.
The meaning of Auld Lang Syne is simply Is it right that old times be forgotten? how pertinent, oh so very pertinent.
"There are lovely things in this world—lovely that do not endure, and the lovelier for that.
Natalie Portman deserves the Oscar for Lead Actress this year, but if not her, it is rightfully Agyness Deyn's.
Sunset Song is textured, layered, but incredibly simple all the same. People, pain, love, beauty, they all come and go, but our land, our land remains. And through it all, through being a daughter, a wife, a mother, Chris never truly gets to be herself, through forgiveness and loss, through quiet bravery, all we are left with in the end of it all is ourselves; the discovery of our true selves. And oh, what a cherished gift that is.
Life can still be good harvest in spite of things.
A spring of life ... sing it, cherish it. It will never come again.
