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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.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director(s): Terence Davies
Production: The Film Desk
  2 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
85
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
PG
Year:
1992
85 min
318 Views


[ Mother ] Don't be so nosy.

[ Bells Jingling ]

[ Boy, A Cappella ]

Once in royal David's city

Stood a lowly cattle shed

Where a mother laid her baby

In a manger for his bed

Mary was

- That mother mild

- [ People Chattering ]

Jesus Christ her little child

[ Titch ] Makes your heart bleed, doesn't it?

Are you gonna help me with these things?

[ Kevin ] In the morning.

I've got to get a tree.

- No, we got that little tree of our own.

- [ John ] Have you got the tree?

- I think it's still in the attic.

- [ Titch Chuckling ]

[ John ]

You should give some of them decorations away.

- You've had them for years.

- No, I like these.

They've got a real history, haven't they?

[ Family Conversing, Indistinct ]

[ Mahler's "Symphony No. 10" ]

[ No Audible Dialogue ]

It's Christmas.

[ Conversing, Indistinct ]

Happy Christmas, lad.

Happy Christmas, Bud.

[ Chattering, Indistinct ]

[ Wind Gusting ]

[ Fades ]

[ Orson Welles In Film ] In those days

they had time for everything

time for sleigh rides and balls...

and assemblies and cotillions...

and open house on New Year's.

[ Crowd ]

Oh, the Cokey Cokey!

Oh, the Cokey Cokey!

Knees bend, arms stretch, rah, rah, rah!

[ Man ]

It's 12:
00!

Should old acquaintance be forgot

And never brought to mind

Should old acquaintance be forgot

For the sake of auld lang syne

For auld lang syne, my dear

For auld lang syne

We'll take a cup of kindness yet

For the sake of auld lang syne

For auld lang syne, my dear

For auld lang syne

We'll take a cup of kindness yet

For the sake of auld lang syne

- [ Cheering ]

- [ Horns Blowing ]

[ Orson Welles ]

And this pageant of the tenantry...

was the last of the great

long-remembered dances...

that everybody talked about.

- What's "kinershet," Mam?

- What's what?

You know, in that song,

"We'll take a cup of kinershet."

Oh.

It's "kindness yet."

- [ Man ] All the best.

- All the best, Mr. Campbell.

Lock the back door, will you, Kev?

[ Kevin ] I already did before we went out.

[ John ] Don't half panic, Mam.

[ Lock Clicks ]

[ Mother ] Good night, Titch.

[ Titch ] Good night, Mam.

[ Mother ] God help anyone with no home tonight.

Well...

I wonder what 1956 will bring.

[ Woman ] Put something cold on his neck.

Like keys.

That'll do the trick.

[ Children Reciting Multiplication Tables ]

Stay here until your nose stops bleeding.

Thank you, Sister.

[ Reciting Continues ]

[ Piano Note ]

[ Children Humming Note ]

[ Piano Note ]

[ Children Humming Note ]

Faith of our fathers

Sanctify my breast

Body of Christ be

Now my saving guest

Deep in thy wounds, Lord

Hide and shelter me

So that I'll never

Never part from thee

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Terence Davies

Terence Davies (born 10 November 1945) is an English screenwriter, film director, novelist and actor. He is best known as the writer and director of Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and The Long Day Closes (1992) as well the collage film Of Time and the City (2008). more…

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