. . . Davies’ cinema is transited by memory. It is a memory interwoven from the individual to the collective, from the wounds of the soul to those of the history of 20th-century Europe…

. . . Few contemporary filmmakers profess such devotion to literature without their films being literal. The cinema of Terence Davies is full of quotes, references, and aphorisms. He has adapted authors such as Wharton and Kennedy Toole, has dramatised a novel like The Waves for the radio and has dug into the lives of writers such as Siegfried Sassoon in the recent BENEDICTION and Emily Dickinson in A QUIET PASSION…

Violeta Kovacsics


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