Fortissimo Films has acquired the international rights to "Sunset Song," from British filmmaker Terence Davies.
Davies recently scored a critical triumph with his moody re-imagining of Terence Rattigan's play "The Deep Blue Sea." He has also received acclaim for prior films like "The House of Mirth" and "Of Time in the City."
"Sunset Song" is an adaptation of the 1932 novel of the same name by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Like "The Deep Blue Sea," it indirectly addresses World War II. However, while the Rattigan play derived much of its visual power from its shots of a bombed out London as it struggled to recover from the war, this film will center on an impoverished community prior to the hostilities.