DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES

Terence Davies

Terence Davies (Liverpool, UK, 1945) after dropping out of school at sixteen he worked as a clerk before leaving Liverpool to attend Coventry Drama School. While there, he wrote the screenplay for what became his first autobiographical short, Children. Then Davies went to the National Film School and completed Madonna and Child, a continuation of the story of Davies’s alter ego, Robert Tucker. In 1983 he completed the trilogy with Death and Transfiguration. Later on he directed Distant Voices, Still Lives (International Critic’s Prize at Cannes Film Festival) and The Long Day Closes, both autobiographical films set in 40s and 50s Liverpool. Besides he directed The Neon Bible and The House of Mirth, adaptations of novels by John Kennedy Toole and Edith Wharton respectively.

FILMOGRAFIA

Children (cm, 1976), Madonna and Child (cm, 1980), Death and Trasfiguration (cm, 1983), The Terence Davies Trilogy (Terence Davies Trilogy, 1983), Distant Voices, Still Lives (Voci lontane… sempre presenti, 1988), The Long Day Closes (Il lungo giorno finisce, 1992), The Neon Bible (Serenata alla luna, 1995), The House of Mirth
(La casa della gioia, 2000), Of Time and the City (doc., 2008).