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The Long Day Closes is a 1992 British drama film written and directed by Terence Davies and starring Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack, Anthony Watson, Nicholas Lamont and Ayes Owens. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
A singular filmic tapestry, The Long Day Closes is an evocative, movie- and music-besotted portrait of the artist as a young man. The Long Day Closes is the most gloriously cinematic expression of the unique sensibility of Terence Davies, widely celebrated as Britain’s greatest living filmmaker.
May 28, 1993 · The Long Day Closes. A lyrical reverie about a young Liverpool boy coming of age in the 1950s among his loving family and the austere Catholic Church as he enters the rigors of school, nurtures a bedazzled love of the movies and longs for companionship.
Feb 5, 2014 · "The Long Day Closes" is a chronicle of the transitory period between the end of horrific domestic violence that defined Davies' early childhood and the full realization of his homosexuality, which resulted in cataclysmic guilt.
A shy youngster copes with the pressures of school and home life in 1950s Britain via the local movie theater.
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The Long Day Closes. Directed by Terence Davies • 1992 • United Kingdom. Starring Leigh McCormack, Marjorie Yates, Anthony Watson. THE LONG DAY CLOSES is the most gloriously cinematic expression of the unique sensibility of Terence Davies, widely celebrated as Britain’s greatest living filmmaker.
Jan 28, 2014 · The Long Day Closes is one child’s experience of the world: we see through his eyes only. What’s on the horizon—the sadnesses and freedoms alike of adulthood—must remain unknown. There are no absolutes in The Long Day Closes; the future and the past are hazy.
May 28, 1993 · Growing up in the wreckage of post-war Liverpool should be a grim experience for sensitive eleven-year-old Bud. He lives in rain-drenched, lice-ridden impoverishment with his mother and hordes of siblings.
The Long Day Closes is essentially Davies's distilled recollection of himself at 11, a seemingly friendless child in a dismal working-class Liverpool,...
May 28, 1993 · Play Trailer. A magical story about a boy’s love affair with the music and movies of the 50s. Overview. Bud is a lonely and quiet boy whose moments of solace occur when he sits in rapture at the local cinema, watching towering and iconic figures on the movie screen.
