THE TERENCE DAVIES TRILOGY
synopsis
Davies' film is divided into three segments entitled "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 the loveless, violent domestic life he experiences. Nonetheless, his father's death has a major impact on 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.
original title: | The Terence Davies Trilogy |
country: | United Kingdom |
year: | 1984 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Terence Davies |
film run: | 101' |
release date: | DE 24/02/1984, CH 08/1984, UK 28/09/1984, IT 04/1985, DK 20/06/1987 |
screenplay: | Terence Davies |
cast: | Phillip Mawdsley, Nick Stringer, Valerie Lilley |
cinematography by: | William Diver |
film editing: | Mick Audsley, William Diver, Sarah Ellis, Digby Rumsey |
executive producer: | Maureen McCue |