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PROUDLY PRESENTS
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THE NEW FILM BY TERENCE DAVIES
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SUNSET SONG
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PETER MULLAN & AGYNESS DEYN TO STAR
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＜Story＞
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Set in the early 20th century, against the backdrop of the poverty of North-East Scotland, and the looming war, Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), the eldest daughter of poor farmers barely making it, struggles for love amid hardship and family misfortune. After her mother, broken by a life of poverty and repeated child-birth poisons herself and her new baby twins, the ever resilient young Chris must manage the farm. Subsequently she is forced to deal with father who has a stroke yet is eager to have an incestuous relationship with his daughter, compelling her to use all her wits to hold the family together and not lose the farm. Finally she finds love, only soon to see her new husband depart for the Great War. While all this goes on, she remains wedded to the farm, connected to a land about to be changed forever by the onset of technology and war.
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TERENCE DAVIES is noted for his recurring themes of emotional (and sometimes physical) endurance, the influence of memory on everyday life and the potentially crippling effects of dogmatic religiosity on the emotional life of individuals and societies. Davies went to the National Film School, and his trio of autobiographical works, known as The Terence Davies Trilogy have been screened at film festivals world-wide and have won numerous awards.
Davies has directed five feature films to date firstly, DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES and THE LONG DAY CLOSES, two very autobiographical films set in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool. His next two films were both adaptations, THE NEON BIBLE starring Gena Rowlands and THE HOUSE OF MIRTH with Gillian Anderson. His documentary, OF TIME AND THE CITY, premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews. His most recent film is THE DEEP BLUE SEA (2011) starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale.
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＜The Cast＞
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PETER MULLAN began acting while in college in his native Scotland. Among his early feature-film acting credits were “The Big Man,” “Riff Raff,” “Shallow Grave,” “Braveheart,” “Trainspotting,” “My Name Is Joe” (for which he won numerous honors, including the Best Actor award at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival), “Miss Julie” and “Session 9.” More recently Mullan starred in “Criminal,” “Blinded,” “On a Clear Day,” “Children of Men,” “Dragnet,” “Stone of Destiny” and “The Red Riding Trilogy.” He also appeared as Death Eater Yaxley in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I” and “Part 2.” He will next be seen starring with James McAvoy in writer/director Eran Creevy’s drama “Welcome to the Punch.”
AGYNESS DEYN is an English model, actress and band vocalist. She was discovered by a modeling scout who in turn signed her up with SELECT modeling agency. In 2007, she was featured on the cover of American VOGUE. Agyness Deyn's bleached cropped hair and steady gaze peered out of the Burberry, Giorgio Armani and Gold by Giles Deacon at New Look campaigns all at once (she replaced Drew Barrymore in the latter). She is one of the new crop of supermodels. She has the all important X-factor which is her own beatnik sense of style - a bit mod, or a bit punk - it's all a bit new and different. In the 2010 film Clash of the Titans, Deyn played Aphrodite, Greek goddess of beauty, love and sex. In 2011, Agyness Deyn has been cast in a remake of Nicolas Winding Refn's 1996 cult classic, PUSHER, where she plays a strong minded stripper. This year, Deyn played her first role on the West End stage, as Paula in François Archambault's comedy, THE LEISURE SOCIETY.
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FORTISSIMOFILMS
In Cannes:
1st floor (Apt. Zanzi) - 5 Square Mérimée
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