Gallery: On location with Terence Davies and Agyness Deyn on Sunset Song

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These photographs were taken on location in Scotland and New Zealand during the shoot of Terence Davies’ exquisite new adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel Sunset Song.

Terence Davies with stars Agyness Deyn and Peter Mullan. Deyn plays Chris Guthrie, a young woman living in rural, early 20th century Scotland with her abusive father (Mullan)
Filming a scene with Agyness Deyn on the beach
Director Terence Davies discusses a scene with Peter Mullan
Cinematographer Michael McDonough (Winter’s Bone). The film’s magic-hour lit exteriors in the fields were shot with a 65mm Arriflex camera to help capture the rolling beauty of the landscape
Terence Davies eyes up a shot through the 65mm lens
Terence Davies is acclaimed by many as Britain’s greatest living film director, following such modern classics as Distant Voices Still Lives (1988), The Long Day Closes (1992) and The House of Mirth (2000)
Davies talks through a scene with actors Agyness Deyn and Jack Greenlees, who plays Chris’s brother, Will
The director in the heavily trampled mud outside the Guthrie farmhouse
Preparing a scene on the hillside with Davies and his crew in silhouette
Deyn and Davies inside the Guthrie farmhouse
Davies against sunlight and lowering grey skies on the beach
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