For the first time ever on DVD comes BFI Fellowship Awarded Terence Davies' masterpiece The Long Day Closes which acts as Davies' follow up to Distant Voices Still Lives his autobiographical memoirs of growing up in Liverpool in the 1950's. In post-war Liverpool the rain-drenched streets lice-ridden impoverishment and high unemployment makes for a wreckage of a town and growing up here was no easy feat. But for eleven-year-old Bud despite the hardships he found a warmth and bliss rarely seen. The love of his mother his sexual awakening and the rich culture springing up around him as pop music and cinema take off add to his childhood bliss. Davies sticks to his fragmented patchwork narrative to show the nature of his own personal memory interspersed with snatched songs and surreal daydreams and so the audience can emphasise with his every grin and grimace. With Liverpool's City Of Culture recognition The Long Day Closes becomes ever more important as its appreciation of the pop music and cinema which came out of Liverpool is accredited with Bud's happiness and therefore Terence Davies' and his admission into cinema himself.
Considered by many to be Britain's most gifted and remarkable filmmaker Terence Davies' visually stunning intensely personal films have impressed audiences the world over and seen him acclaimed by critics as one of contemporary cinema's true poets. Packaged here together for the first time with a host of extra features are four of Davies' most evocative works: The Terence Davies Trilogy (1976-1983) Distant Voices Still Lives (1988) The Long Day Closes (1992) and Of Time and the City (2008).
Irish drama that follows 'Mad' Mary McArdle (Seána Kerslake) as she returns to her home town of Drogheda after a short stint in prison. Following her release, Mary returns to Drogheda for her best friend Charlene (Charleigh Bailey)'s wedding. As she prepares for her big role as the maid of honour, Mary tends to her duties and prepares her speech while dealing with the social repercussions of her time behind bars for a violent assault and trying to find a date for the big day.
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