Sunset Song is conventionally A-to-B, though it’s a strangely freeing framework within which Terence Davies achieves some gorgeously subtle effects.
A Golden Novak Djokavic, in recognition of otherworldly improvement in 2011, goes to Yorgos Lanthimos for Alps.
Davies’s irreverence is exhilarating when he takes on institutions as powerful as the church or the Beatles.
Fraternal auteurs aren’t having much critical support this year.