DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES

Terence Davies

Terence Davies (Liverpool, UK, 1945) quit school at sixteen to study at the Coventry Drama School. He debuted in 1976 with the autobiographical Children and then enrolled at the National Film School, where he made another short, Madonna and Child. He concluded The Terence Davies Trilogy with Death and Transfiguration (1983). In 1988 and 1992 he made his two masterpieces: Distant Voices, Still Lives (FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes) and The Long Day Closes, autobiographical films set in Liverpool during the 1940s and 1950s. These were followed by The Neon Bible (1995), in Cannes competition, and The House of Mirth, based on the novel by Edith Wharton. He returned to Cannes in 2008 with his documentary about Liverpool Of Time and the City, also presented at the Torino Film Festival, which in 2015 gave him the Gran Premio Torino and presented his film Sunset Song.

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), The Deep Blue Sea (2011), Sunset Song (2015), A Quiet Passion (2016).