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n my last post, I referred to Rick Alverson’s “Entertainment”, an exceptionally important film distributed by Magnolia that I discovered going through my 2015 backlog. Now working my way systematically through the 2016 Magnolia DVD’s, I have happened upon another jewel that should be of particular interest to Marxists, namely “Sunset Song”. The film was based on a 1932 novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon that reflected his socialist beliefs. It is the story of a Scottish farming family that begins in 1890 or so and that culminates in the impact WWI has on Chris Guthrie, the sole surviving member of that family working their land. Despite the name, Chris is a woman who always corrects people when they refer to her as Chrissie. She says, “Call me Chris. I am not from the gentry.”
This deeply moving film was directed by Terence Davies, who like Rick Alverson was unfamiliar to me. As will likely be the case with Alverson, “Sunset Song” will likely lead me to a survey of his work. Born in 1945 and still going strong, Davies was the youngest of ten children of working-class Catholic parents who broke with his religion. He is also a gay man who explored the gay experience in a number of films that number only seven in a long career, the explanation for which is that he refuses to compromise. Thank god.
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