Sunset Song

"With his monumental control of the camera (...) Davies directs the most refined coming-of-age story cinema has seen in recent years (...) 'Sunset Song' is a remarkable experience" 

"It is a rare director who dares to embrace the slow, meditative rhythms of a classic novel (...) but Davies uses the measured pace to unfold his poetic vision of the Scottish peasantry and their attachment to the land" 

"Davies gives the book's - and its heroine's - sense of the agony and the ecstasy of growing up a gloriously personal touch. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)" 

"We're left with little to do but admire the scenery." 

"Like most of Mr. Davies’s films, 'Sunset Song' makes you see the world through his sorrowful eyes. He is a die-hard romantic, whose acute sensitivity to the passage of time conveys a bittersweet awareness of the fragility of beauty, which, for him, is synonymous with melancholy." 

"A lusty ballad of love and heartbreak sung with passion and power (...) Davies's love for his characters is impossible to conceal (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five" 

"Davies recently said that he doesn’t understand the modern world, preferring a romantic version “that doesn’t quite exist anymore”. With Sunset Song he’s again made a prize of beauty and found peace in the past (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"