His acclaimed debut feature, “Distant Voices, Still Lives,” drew on his traumatic upbringing. He later examined the poets Emily Dickinson and Siegfried Sassoon.
Terence Davies, one of Britain’s most lyrical filmmakers, who drew on his upbringing in working-class Liverpool for films including “Distant Voices, Still Lives,” an elliptical portrait of love, longing, memory and faith, died Oct. 7 at his home in Mistley, Essex, in the east of England. He was 77.Mr.
Still, his work remained partly autobiographical, even as his characters ranged across settings and time periods. “When Emily says, ‘I have many faults, there is much to rectify’ — well, that’s me,” he told the Guardian last year, recalling how he still felt guilty for minor childhood outbursts. “I’ve not done anythingto anybody,” he added. “But when you follow the rules, it can become destructive. You can end up not liking yourself. And I don’t think I do.
By his early 20s, Mr. Davies was acting in amateur theater productions. He turned toward filmmaking in the early 1970s, after he concluded that he wasn’t handsome enough to make it as a leading man — as he told it, he had the figure of an avocado — and enrolled at the Coventry Drama School, where he wrote the screenplay for his first short film, “Children” .The film introduced his alter ego Robert Tucker, a bullied young man grappling with his abusive father and guilt over his homosexuality. Mr.
For all his self-criticism, friends said that he was far from dour. “For anyone who knew Davies himself, the presiding recollection is the infectious joy, the overwhelming pleasure — the childlike delight — that he clearly took in all that he loved,” wrote film critic Michael Koresky, author of the 2014 study “Terence Davies,” in a. Eric Stoltz, who played Anderson’s unrequited lover in “The House of Mirth,” once described Mr.
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