Called the most important British filmmaker of his generation; Terence Davies made his reputation with modern classics like Distant Voices; Still Lives and The Long Day Closes; personal works exploring his fractured childhood in Liverpool. His idiosyncratic and unorthodox narrative films defy easy categorization; though they would seem to exist within the realms of realism and personal memory cinema; the films lay bare the directors personal pain in a daringly abstract way. Film critic Michael Koresky explores the unique emotional tenor of Davies work by focusing on four paradoxes within the directors oeuvre: films that are autobiographical yet fictional; melancholy yet elating; conservative in tone and theme yet radically constructed; and obsessed with the passing of time yet frozen in time and space. Through these contradictions; the films intricate designs reveal a cumulative; deeply personal meditation on the self. Koresky also analyzes how Davies ongoing negotiation of--and struggle with--questions of identity related to his past and his homosexuality imbue the details and jarring juxtapositions in his films with a queer sensibility; which is too often overlooked due to the complexity of Davies work and his unfashionable ambivalence toward his own sexual orientation.
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