The Long Day Closes
The Long Day Closes

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The Long Day Closes is the story of eleven-year-old "Bud." A sad and lonely boy, Bud struggles through his days. With cinema as his main source of solace, he haunts the local movie-house. All the while, his family looms large in our peripheral vision as do the menacing bullies of his school, but Bud is the center of attention both from the camera's angle and from his doting family. With a gray background, the film fuses clips and audio from classic movies into Bud's dreary ch... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Long Day Closes:

Leigh McCormack
Marjorie Yates
Anthony Watson
Nicholas Lamont
Ayse Owens
Tina Malone

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The Long Day Closes is the story of eleven-year-old "Bud." A sad and lonely boy, Bud struggles through his days. With cinema as his main source of solace, he haunts the local movie-house. All the while, his family looms large in our peripheral vision as do the menacing bullies of his school, but Bud is the center of attention both from the camera's angle and from his doting family. With a gray background, the film fuses clips and audio from classic movies into Bud's dreary childhood and brings it to life with an elegance Bach would bring to your home movies. The overall effect is a montage of memory which seems to ignite flashes of recognition in the viewer.

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Little White Lies - 10/10 by PJ NabarroTerence Davies' most underrated work: a cinematic hymn to the echoes and sensations of childhood - a paradise gained and lost.
New Yorker - 10/10 by Richard Brody[An] exquisite, impressionistic, largely autobiographical reverie ...
Slant Magazine - 10/10 by Fernando F. CroceThe Long Day Closes posits its pubescent protagonist as a tiny camera absorbing and transforming the reality all around him.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 9/10 by Emanuel LevyThough not as fully realized and touching as the original masterpiece of Distant Voices, the sequel is very much worth seeing.
Movie Metropolis - 8/10 by Christopher LongDavies keeps looking back until it hurts, and that's where his art begins.
Spirituality and Practice - 6/10 by Frederic and Mary Ann BrussatAn inventive and lovely celebration of what director Terence Davies calls " the poetry of the ordinary."
User Review - 10/10 by Jason BJust sat there transfixed by the images. Lots of chills.
User Review - 10/10 by Hannah DWow, this is the fourth film I've seen from Terence Davies, and once again I was mesmerised. I found myself on the edge of tears in the very first scene as it was so beautiful. Many of my favourite pieces of music were played and even my favourite Christmas carol Once in Royal David's City was picked for the Christmas scenes!
User Review - 10/10 by Lee MI've not seen too many Terence Davies films yet, but what I can already confirm about "The Long Day Closes" is that it is a masterpiece.
User Review - 10/10 by Nick OGive or take an R, it'd be easy to relate Terence Davies with Terrence Malick. Both are masters of elegiac camerawork and understanding the complexities of nature and memory. Davies especially, though, excels at capturing a specific region. His features have Ken Loach's day-in-a-life/life-in-a-day authenticity and texture. The only other film of Davies' I'd seen until now was 2012's "The Deep Blue Sea", and one thing's for sure: you know a Davies shot when you're endlessly entranced in one. Immaculately layered as a dense, ambient, bird's-eye card shuffle of the childhood of one eleven-year-old Liverpool lad Bud (Leigh McCormack), "The Long Day Closes" has some of the most perfectly constructed framing of any movie I've probably ever seen. I guess Davies wants you to feel the slow-bake of boyhood and lazy weekend afternoons. Another major theme outside of a great slice of coming-of-age tale is entertainment and how people would bide their time in the 1950s. Radio dramas, sparse film dialogue, gospel and pop songs all appear on the soundtrack. There's a real sense of togetherness here. Bud's family sings a lot, his mother (Marjorie Yates) in particular, and singing as much as cinema haunts "The Long Day Closes". Davies has such a unique imagining of era and place and how they compare to eternally universal emotions, it's beguiling. And yeah, like Malick the intimacy in his escapism is meant to evoke subjectively as well as objectively. Crazy to think Davies kind of made his "The Tree of Life" more than a decade before Malick did his, or at least so impeccably partnered the razor-edge social realism of the French New Wave with a more poetic, precise and personal Hollywood Mulholland drive. Nothing bereft of a masterpiece. (100/100)

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