Film
The Terence Davies Trilogy
- Director
- Terence Davies
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 101 mins
The Watershed’s Terence Davies restrospective season kicks off with a trio of his earliest short films, charting the life of his fictional alter ego, Robert Tucker, to examine the painful conflict between homosexuality and religion. Children (1976) introduces Robert as a handdog child beaten into silence by bullies, Catholic schoolteachers, and a violent father. Madonna and Child (1980) sees Robert as a middle-aged Liverpool office worker ravaged by guilt over his sexualuty and inability to find solace in the Church, while Death and Transfiguration (1983) shows him as an old man in a hospital bed, haunted by images from his troubled life.
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