British filmmaker Terence Davies’s meditative musing on the outbreak and aftershock of World War I was inspired by Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel Sunset Song. With a backdrop of rural Kincardineshire in northeast Scotland (author Gibbon’s homeland), Davies’s stately adaptation, cloaked in his own preoccupations with memory and time, is a sensitive dramatization of one young woman’s life at the dawn of a gruesome and demoralizing century. (Terence Davies, 2015, DCP, 135 minutes).
This event is part of the European Month of Culture (EUMC). Now in its fifth year, EUMC is a month-long festival of innovative and creative events for the American public highlighting the diverse cultures of all 28 European Union Member countries. Enjoy film, dance, music, theatre, exhibits, language classes, workshops and more in great venues throughout Washington DC. Most events are free! To see all EUMC events, click here.
