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Title: The Terence Davies Trilogy (1983)
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Death and Transfiguration
(1983)
Short
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Drama
Director:
Terence Davies
Stars:
Wilfrid Brambell,
Terry O'Sullivan,
Iain Munro
Madonna and Child
(1980)
Short
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Drama
Director:
Terence Davies
Stars:
Terry O'Sullivan,
Sheila Raynor,
Paul Barber
Children
(1976)
Short
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Drama
Director:
Terence Davies
Stars:
Phillip Mawdsley,
Nick Stringer,
Valerie Lilley
Distant Voices, Still Lives
(1988)
Drama
Director:
Terence Davies
Stars:
Pete Postlethwaite,
Freda Dowie,
Angela Walsh
The Long Day Closes
(1992)
Biography
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Drama
Director:
Terence Davies
Stars:
Leigh McCormack,
Marjorie Yates,
Anthony Watson
The Neon Bible
(1995)
Drama
Director:
Terence Davies
Stars:
Jacob Tierney,
Drake Bell,
Gena Rowlands
Of Time and the City
(2008)
Documentary
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Biography
Director:
Terence Davies
Stars:
Terence Davies
The House of Mirth
(2000)
Romance
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Drama
Director:
Terence Davies
Stars:
Gillian Anderson,
Dan Aykroyd,
Eleanor Bron
Berlin Alexanderplatz
(TV Mini-Series 1980)
Drama
Stars:
Günter Lamprecht,
Claus Holm,
Hanna Schygulla
Confidentially Yours
(1983)
Comedy
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Crime
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Mystery
Director:
François Truffaut
Stars:
Fanny Ardant,
Jean-Louis Trintignant,
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
The Deep Blue Sea
(2011)
Drama
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Romance
Director:
Terence Davies
Stars:
Rachel Weisz,
Tom Hiddleston,
Ann Mitchell
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Nick Stringer | ... |
Robert's Father (segment: Children)
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Valerie Lilley | ... |
Robert's Mother (Middle-Aged) (segment: Children)
(as Val Lilley)
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Colin Hignet | ... |
Bully #1 (segment: Children)
(as Colin Hignett)
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Robin Bowen | ... |
Bully #2 (segment: Children)
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Harry Wright | ... |
Teacher #1 (segment: Children)
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Phillip Joseph | ... |
Teacher #2 (segment: Children)
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Man in Shower (segment: Children)
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Linda Beckett | ... |
Neighbour (segment: Children)
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Bill Maxwell | ... |
(segment: Children)
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Elizabeth Estensen | ... |
Nurse (segment: Children)
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Malcolm Hughes | ... |
Man in Bedroom (segment: Children)
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Kate Fahy | ... |
Neighbour (segment: Children)
(as Katherine Fahey)
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Marjorie Rowlandson | ... |
Neighbour (segment: Children)
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Davies' film is divided into three segments enitled "Children", "Madonna and Child", and "Death and Transfiguartion". The segments tell the life of Robert Tucker. The first segment looks at his birth and formative years in school, an austere boy's school. The bleak environment is not aided by loveless, violent homelife he experiences. Nonetheless, his father's death is a major impact to him. In the second segment, he is a closeted homosexual working in a grim office and still living at home with his daunting mother. In the final segment, he deals with his mother's death and then faces his own impending doom. As his death approaches he flashes back to his life's events. Written by John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
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Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
24 February 1984 (West Germany) See more »Also Known As:
Terence Davies Trilogien See more »Company Credits
Production Co:
British Film Institute (BFI), Greater London Arts Association, National Film and Television School (NFTS) See more »
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Lyrics by Howard Richardson
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This can still be bought in the USA from Strand Releasing but you must go to their web site to do so. But why should you buy it, other than that is the only way you will see it. Not from birth, as the synopsis reports, but from childhood to death it is a portrait of male homosexual life in a repressive society. As so it the biography of millions of men who lived before 1972, and many who have come after. And it shows the viewer no mercy. As the writer of the synopsis for IMDb chooses to call the mother daunting, which I think he must have gotten from reading Martin Beibler rather than watching the movie, I ask you to watch the mother's face very carefully as her son reads their 'stars'. I don't know when the other reviewers think that the death scene begins, you could well say that the whole of 'death and transfiguration' is the death scene but lets say it begins after the nurse goes for the X-rays, the cutting between the reality of the remembered child and the reality of the hard death of the man is Mahler made film.