Death and Transfiguration

Name: Death and Transfiguration
Director: Terence Davies
Released: 1983
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Wilfrid Brambell, Terry O'Sullivan, Iain Munro, Jeanne Doree, Chrissy Roberts

1983 · ★ 5.8 · Dir. Terence Davies

In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker's life: he's an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he's in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he's a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children's choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother's cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back.

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