
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play For the first time ever on DVD comes BFI Fellowship Awarded Terence Davies& masterpiece The Long Day Closes which acts as Davies& follow up to Distant Voices Still Lives his autobiographical memoirs of growing up in Liverpool in the 1950&s In post-war Liverpool the rain-drenched streets lice-ridden impoverishment & high unemployment makes for a wreckage of a town & growing up here was no easy feat But for eleven-year-old Bud despite the hardships he found a warmth & bliss rarely seen The love of his mother his sexual awakening & the rich culture springing up around him as pop music & cinema take off add to his childhood bliss Davies sticks to his fragmented patchwork narrative to show the nature of his own personal memory interspersed with snatched songs & surreal daydreams & so the audience can emphasise with his every grin & grimace With Liverpool&s City Of Culture recognition The Long Day Closes becomes ever more important as its appreciation of the pop music & cinema which came out of Liverpool is accredited with Bud&s happiness & therefore Terence Davies& & his admission into cinema himself Actors Leigh Mc Cormack Marjorie Yates Anthony Watson Nicholas Lamont & Ayse Owens Director Terence Davies Certificate PGYear 1992 Screen Widescreen Languages English
- Dolby (20) Stereo Subtitles English For The Hearing Impaired Duration 1 hour & 25 minutes (approx)