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The Long Day Closes (1992)

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Terence Davies' blissful, evocative and non-narrative follow-up to his Distant Voices, Still Lives follows a few months in the life of 12-year-old Bud (Leigh McCormack), in impressionistic snatches of his everyday existence growing up in the Liverpool of 1956. Bud's world is influenced by his mother (Marjorie Yates), his older sister Helen (Ayse Owens), and his older brothers John (Nicholas Lamont) and Kevin (Anthony Watson). Bud is a lonely and quiet child whose moments of solace occur when he

PG, 1 hr. 22 min.

Drama, Kids & Family

Mar 30, 1994

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An inventive and lovely celebration of what director Terence Davies calls " the poetry of the ordinary."

July 18, 2003 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | Comment
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This film is a love letter to the cinema.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
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If you see poetry as a way of looking at life- a particular awareness or appreciation perhaps- then this film is about as close as you can get to a representation of poetry on film (along with Davies earlier- and quite similar biographical film- 'Distant Voices, Still Lives').Memory sometimes reduces things into

February 10, 2011
matertenebraum

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A follow up to the excellent 'Distant Voices, Still Lives' and, for me, an even better film. I haven't seen either film for many years but both films left a profound emotional effect on me. The Long Day Closes (as with Distant Voices) has quite a loose narrative structure and has no plot as such. It's more a kind of

December 6, 2007
McKittrick

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