The Terence Davies Trilogy
1984 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Davies' film is divided into three segments enitled: Children, 1974 / Madonna and Child, 1980 / Death and Transfiguration, 1983. Part 1- CHILDREN The theme is violence - social and domestic - and its effect on the main character Robert Tucker. It is told in a series of extended flashbacks and reveals incidents from his childhood. The film ends with a memory - the death of his father and the boy appears to be trapped in his sexuality and his childhood. Part 2 - MADONNA AND CHILD It is a film about the conflict between Catholicism and sexuality. A severe and intimate portrait of Robert Tucker in middle age who is trapped in his private and public personnae. Part 3 - DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION Part three completes the story in more ways than being merely the final installment. It is a summing up of Tucker`s life and his attitudes towards the remembered events of his life and his coming to terms with his mortality.
Direction Terence Davies
Cast Terry O'Sullivan · Wilfrid Brambell · Sheila Raynor · Dave Cooper · Jeanne Doree · Robin Hooper · Valerie Lilley · Phillip Mawdsley · Iain Munro · Nick Stringer
Screenplay Terence Davies
Cinematography William Diver
Original title The Terence Davies Trilogy: Children / Madonna and Child / Death and Transfiguration
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