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The Long Day Closes

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Original title: The Long Day Closes
Year: 1992
Running time: 85 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Terence Davies
Screenwriter: Terence Davies
Cast: Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack, Anthony Watson, Nicholas Lamont, Ayse Owens
Music: Bob Last
Cinematography: Michael Coulter
Producer: BFI, Film4 Productions
Genre: Drama | 1950s. Childhood
Synopsis: 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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Awards: 1992: Seminci: Golden Spike (ex-aequo)

1992: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Palme d'Or (Best Film)

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Critics' reviews

"'The Long Day Closes' posits its pubescent protagonist as a tiny camera absorbing and transforming the reality all around him."

Fernando F. Croce: Slant
"What’s uniquely remarkable about 'The Long Day Closes', Terence Davies’ 1992 return to his own childhood, is how gloriously disorganized its story feels."

A.A. Dowd: AV Club
"Sensuous and rarefied, elevating its particulars into epiphanies, 'The Long Day Closes' is as joyful as introversion gets."

Jay Carr: Boston Globe
"'The Long Day Closes' is impressive in many ways. It may be a strange filmgoing experience, but its haunting imagery and sounds make it powerfully memorable"

Jeff Menell: The Hollywood Reporter
"A deeply personal film, and at times a touching one, it is a collection of fragments and memories artfully pieced into a quirky, captivating book of dreams."

Stephen Holden: The New York Times

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