Grass is Singing - Trailer
Michael Raeburn's film adaptation of Doris Lessing's iconic novel: The Grass is Singing.
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures: http://www.journeyman.tv/66233/short-...
A city-woman moves to a foreign country with her future husband, giving up all the comforts of cosmopolitan life. Life in the countryside finally takes its toll on her, and she finds herself involved sexually with another man.
"Karen Black triumphs in one of the most demanding roles of her career. The film takes us into a world as beautiful as it is harsh, and we can all but feel the heat that's so unbearable. It ends on a note of authentic ambiguity that few films attain" Kelvin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
"Brilliantly reflects the uncommon intensity and insight of Doris Lessing's work" Judy Stone, San Francisco Chronicle
"Director Raeburn has elicited understated, finely tuned performances" Steven Holden, New York Times
"Facinating. Black gives her finest performance tracing the sexual repression and despairing angers of a woman on the edge" Judith Crist, WOR-TV
"Shows us the African landscape in a hundred exquisite details and large panoramas, and the screen is so filled with light and movement that I had the feeling I could walk right in it" Nancy Scott, San Francisco Examiner
"Location footage is stunning in this handsome, high-quality production" Variety
"Doris Lessing is a novelist of distinction, how reassuring to find hertalent positivley shining forth from The Grass Is Singing" Daily Telegraph, UK
"It has courage and crackle.. full of fine, barbed meditations on barbarism, both black and white" Financial Times
"Fine literary edaptation. Karen outstanding. Michael Raeburn directs with an appropriate mystical edge" The Guardian, UK
"This dramatically potent adaptation has visual authenticity.. script and direction capture the quality of Lessing's best writing" Time Out
"A film Peter Weir might have made had not Michael Raeburn got there first" New Musical Express.
"John Thaw - a superb, unstinting performance. One of the few films which treats Africa not as a political problem or a suitable location for racey adventure, but as an environment that dictates the human drama of its inhabitants" Daily Mail, UK
"The atmosphere evoked is one of considerable tension. Raeburn has brought it all together very well and created a succint and very interesting film" BBC
" 'The Grass Is Singing' is a Third World 'Stromboli' with K. Black in the Ingrid Bergman part" Filmworld, Canada
"Provides the exhilaration of a drama well spun. There is an emotional tension of classical tragedy" Weekend Australia
"Steaming atmosphere.. The film's strength is in the moment where man stands against the environment" Svenska Dagbladet, Sweden
"Has the psychic power of a strange and terrible dream. As a metaphor for the traumas of our country it may well be prophetic" Cape Times, South Africa.