Summaries. … Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Synopsis submission guide. Tall, big-boned Janet McTeer ... is the ideal actress to play Lily Penleric. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. the presentation [of mountain music]evokes its deep emotions and a beauty that comes from life experience, not the pre-packaged pap courtesy of slick marketing types. Coming Soon, Regal Please click the link below to receive your verification email. Sign up here. The most startling sex scene involves the musicologist and the mountain man; a piercing scream rents the air, and we see Dr. Penleric running through the woods, tearing off her clothes before discovering Tom in a clearing and covering him passionately with kisses. TV Movie Guide: 20 - 26 April. Just confirm how you got your ticket. The scream comes from a panther (at first I thought it was the noon whistle), and Lily has been advised by Viney to flee from such an attack by throwing off her clothes to distract it; as a depiction of Victorian morality making the leap into modern lust, this scene will serve. It is about a musicologist researching and collecting Appalachian folk music in the mountains of western North Carolina. AIRED ON 11 March 2001. | SBS acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia. |, August 2, 2001 Songcatcher is a 2000 drama film directed by Maggie Greenwald. The soundtrack album inspired the 2002 follow-up album by Vanguard Records, Songcatcher II: The Tradition That Inspired the Movie, that compiled recordings of some of the songs selected for the film as performed by authentic Appalachian artists. 16,13+,T,R,SAM 13,-10,14A,15,MA 15+,12,K16,B15. | Top Critics (29) In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Janet McTeer`s solemnity gets a bit dull - but the location photography and the folk singers are wonderful. For Sexual Content and An Intense Scene Of Childbirth, NYFF 2020: Night of the Kings, Atarrabi and Mikelats, The Salt of Tears, An Open Letter to Cuties Director Maïmouna Doucouré from Female Filmmakers, Excellent Performances Lead Hulu's Disturbing Horror Series Monsterland, The Walking Dead: World Beyond Shows Few Signs of Life. If we accept "Songcatcher" as a contemporary parable in period costumes, however, there is much to enjoy--not least the sound of the songs themselves. "Songcatcher" tells the story of a woman who goes into the mountains of Appalachia in 1907, and finds the people singing British ballads that are almost unchanged since they arrived there 200 years earlier. It is 1907, and musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer) has just been denied a promotion in the male-dominated world of her university. Like the main character, it's stodgy and didactic -- and full of grace and surprises.