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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #450 on: Today at 01:15:47 PM »
Watched "Sunset Song" a 2015 film directed by Terence Davies based on a 1932 novel by Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

Not sure what to make of it. It looked beautiful, and there was a fine central performance from Agyness Deyn, but it felt too disjointed to me.

There were almost three separate films. The first part being pretty much full on misery in the shape of the father, the second part joy with the marriage of Christine to Ewan, and then back to misery and despair with the third part at the onset of the 1st World War. Even within the three parts, it felt disjointed.

I thought it was well done but I have issues with the director's approach.

This was on TUBI, which I wasn't aware of until recently, but it is a free streaming channel which has some decent stuff on it.

On reading reviews of the film, I have found out that there is a BBC adaptation dating from the early 70s that is available on BBC Iplayer, which might be worth a punt as the general consensus seems to be that it is better than the more recent film.


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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #451 on: Today at 01:25:46 PM »
Watched "Sunset Song" a 2015 film directed by Terence Davies based on a 1932 novel by Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

Not sure what to make of it. It looked beautiful, and there was a fine central performance from Agyness Deyn, but it felt too disjointed to me.

There were almost three separate films. The first part being pretty much full on misery in the shape of the father, the second part joy with the marriage of Christine to Ewan, and then back to misery and despair with the third part at the onset of the 1st World War. Even within the three parts, it felt disjointed.

I thought it was well done but I have issues with the director's approach.

This was on TUBI, which I wasn't aware of until recently, but it is a free streaming channel which has some decent stuff on it.

On reading reviews of the film, I have found out that there is a BBC adaptation dating from the early 70s that is available on BBC Iplayer, which might be worth a punt as the general consensus seems to be that it is better than the more recent film.
I think the 1971 adaptation is better but as is obvious ot is a dour watch. A novel, abd a trilogy of novels, more to very admired than enjoyed. Because of reading them at the same time and watching the TV adaptations i have this entwined with Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth

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« Reply #452 on: Today at 01:37:07 PM »
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i have this entwined with Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth

I can see how that would happen. Indeed, while we were watching it prompted a conversation about T of Y.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #453 on: Today at 06:21:14 PM »
Watched The Assasin with Keeley Hawes, very odd programme. It felt like the bastard test tube baby of a hundred other programmes. And Freddie Highmore has an outre superpower of annoying me for no reason.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Assassin_(TV_series)