The Long Day Closes (UK-import)
In post-war Liverpool the rain-drenched streets, lice-ridden impoverishment and high unemployment makes for a wreckage of a town, and growing up here was no easy feat. But for eleven-year-old Bud, despite the hardships, he found a warmth and bliss rarely seen. The love of his mother, his sexual awakening and the rich culture springing up around him as pop music and cinema take off add to his childhood bliss. Terence Davies sticks to his fragmented, patchwork narrative to show the nature of his own personal memory, interspersed with snatched songs and surreal daydreams and so the audience can emphasise with his every grin and grimace.
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