The Long Day Closes
For the magazine's twentieth anniversary this year, a series of screenings has been planned on the double bill principle, with the main focus on a selection of rarely-seen films. Other movies in the program are also important milestones in the development of the critics' dialogue within one of Quebec's most dynamic film magazines.
In competition for the Palme d'Or at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival
Set in 1950s Liverpool, the story follows the modest life of a family through the eyes of Bud, a ten-year-old boy. He's bored and wants to go to the movies. The film reveals the monotony of daily family life as well as the importance of his mother's presence in the household.
Terence Davies
Terence Davies is a British screenwriter, director, novelist, and actor. As a filmmaker, he is known for his films about emotional or physical suffering. He reflects on the influence of memory and the effects of dogmatic religion. As the sole screenwriter of all his films, Davies composes them like symphonies with symmetrical structures. In 1976, he directed Children, the first of three autobiographical medium-length films that would later be combined in The Terence Davies Trilogy. Due to difficulties in financing his films and his refusal to compromise, his productions appear more sporadic after his Trilogy. The first two, Distant Voices, Still Lives, which won the Golden Leopard at the 1988 Locarno International Film Festival, and The Long Day Closes (1991), are again autobiographical films set in the 1940s and 1950s in Liverpool. In 2003, The Guardian ranked him 10th in the list of the world's 40 best directors.
Photo : Sarah Fitzgerald | Collections de la Cinémathèque québécoise
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