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Three short films by director Terence Davies: 'Children' (1976), 'Madonna and the Child' (1980) and 'Death and Transfiguration' (1983). Taken together, the three films trace the life of Robert Tucker, the director's alter ego, from childhood to the grave.
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Booklet, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Commentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: For the first time ever on DVD, from BFI Fellowship Awarded Terence Davies, The Terence Davies Trilogy. The Terence Davies Trilogy acts, as do his two later films, Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, as a reconstruction of his childhood and youth in working class post-war Liverpool. In his trilogy he uses alter ego Robert Tucker, a shy and introverted child who is assumed to be not as able mentally as his peers and so bullied by those around him. His home life is darkly overshadowed by his violent abusive father and his guilt over homosexual feeling, which is exacerbated by his strict Catholic upbringing. These dark and unhappy memories though are interspersed by his tender and warm feelings towards the entertainment culture springing up around Liverpool, listening to the wireless and visiting the cinema being favourite pastimes of his. Davies sticks to his fragmented, patchwork narrative to show the nature of his own personal memory, interspersed with snatched songs and surreal daydreams and so the audience can emphasise with his every grin and grimace. With Liverpool's City Of Culture recognition The Terence Davies Trilogy becomes ever more important as its appreciation of the pop culture which came out of Liverpool is accredited with Robert's happiness, and therefore Terence Davies' and his admission into cinema himself. ...The Terence Davies Trilogy
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
By Magpie
I first saw the film on Channel Four many years ago and it stayed in my psyche from then on. I read the book as well and again the story affected me deeply.
This film isn't easy watching at all, it's raw, painful, upsetting, depressing but yet ultimately uplifting too. It is not going to win any awards for furthering the cause of Gay Pride - it paints too bleak a picture of homosexuality (all sexuality?) for that. What it does do however is lay before us the life of one man and the consequences of choice denied, decisions made; later regreted and a life lived in fear.
The film is highly critical of organised religion and Catholicism in particular - anyone who knows anything about Terence Davies will understand that.
Buy this film and watch it with an open mind and be so grateful that you have more options and opportunities than the poor soul featured. Incidentally, Wilfred Brambell's performance in the last part of the trilogy is brilliant.
This film isn't easy watching at all, it's raw, painful, upsetting, depressing but yet ultimately uplifting too. It is not going to win any awards for furthering the cause of Gay Pride - it paints too bleak a picture of homosexuality (all sexuality?) for that. What it does do however is lay before us the life of one man and the consequences of choice denied, decisions made; later regreted and a life lived in fear.
The film is highly critical of organised religion and Catholicism in particular - anyone who knows anything about Terence Davies will understand that.
Buy this film and watch it with an open mind and be so grateful that you have more options and opportunities than the poor soul featured. Incidentally, Wilfred Brambell's performance in the last part of the trilogy is brilliant.
By HAN XIAO
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WONDERFUL BOXSET. HOWEVER, THIS COMMENT ONLY COMES FROM ONES WHO REALLY ARE INTERESTED IN OLD FILMS AND SEE THEM AS TREASURES OF GOLDEN ERA...RECOMMENDED...
24 of 40 people found the following review helpful
By David J. Kay
if film and wonder and reality and fantasy and sadness and humanity and life and death AND (once more) FILM ...
interest YOU
GET THIS - GO SOMEWHERE DARK and WATCH IT
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GET THIS - GO SOMEWHERE DARK and WATCH IT
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