![]() ![]() Chris’ home, particularly her stairwell, is filmed in vacancy or just with Chris, repeatedly throughout Song, the perfect rays of morning light spreading out the promises of a new day-a new day in which she routinely assists in running the family farm. Quietly, Song is perhaps the most humane and feminist film of 2016. There are many breathtaking shots in Sunset Song (lensed by Winter’s Bone’s Michael McDonough), but there is a higher purpose here than mere painterly pictures. First by her overbearing father ( Peter Mullan), who repeatedly and dangerously impregnates her mother and beats his oldest son for the most minor of transgressions, and then by the words of community leaders who would brand her husband ( Kevin Guthrie) a traitor and a coward if he does not enlist for War. For Chris ( Agyness Deyn), however, that idyllic light is repeatedly snuffed out in her homestead. The green hills roll, the wheat sways, the lake is a proper blue, and the horse hoofs to town take us to schoolhouses and kind town folk. The early 20 th century Scottish countryside is filmed with an idyllic, painterly eye in Terence Davies’ newest film. ![]() The spirit she captured is inimitable. Arnold sweeps through the anarchic, unvarnished America most people won’t even look in the eye and finds beauty in the disorder. Arnold packed up her ragtag crew of neophyte actors and sent them on a real road-trip, filming as they went along. She joins his magazine sales crew, a team of young novice actors assembled by Arnold as she found them around the country, and as a result, everything in ) with gaudy gold phone and a gnarly rattail on the promise of making some money and having some fun. The simple but sprawling story follows newcomerĪs Star, a teenage girl with nothing but a fire inside her who leaves her grim and empty life of poverty behind to follow a charming boy (a magnetic Same as the first go, I was transfixed for every one of its many minutes. Indeed, I listened to the ridiculous soundtrack of trap music for weeks afterward, trying to rekindle the freewheeling, down and dirty humanity the movie captures.Just to make sure it wasn’t a screening fluke, I watched the film again. That’s so sad.” I felt like I wished I could stay in the experience of watchingįorever. At a certain point, I caught myself thinking, “This movie’s going to end soon. I sat totally enthralled for every single minute of the fim’s long runtime. “Woe is me, what mistakes I’ve made,” I thought to myself, unaware that I was walking into my favorite movie-watching experience of the year. What I did not know was that I would have to wake up at 7 AM the day after the opening night party on a California-Austin time difference to make the press screening. , so I jumped at the chance to do interviews for the film at Fantastic Fest. ![]() Never in my life would I have guessed that a rambling 3-hour characters study would be the film that moved me the most this year, especially given the circumstances of how I saw it. ![]()
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