British filmmaker Terence Davies has died at the age of 77.
FILE - Director Terence Davies poses for portrait photographs at at the 2016 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, Sunday Feb. 14, 2016. British filmmaker Terence Davies, best known for a pair of powerful, lyrical movies inspired by his childhood in postwar Liverpool, has died at the age of 77. Davies manager John Taylor said the director died peacefully at home in his sleep on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023 after a short illness.
After making several short films, Davies made his feature debut as writer-director in 1988 with “Distant Voices, Still Lives,” a dreamlike — sometimes nightmarish — collage of a film that evoked a childhood of poverty and violence leavened by music and movie magic. The film won the Cannes International Critics Prize in 1988, and in 2002 was voted the ninth-best film of the past 25 years by British film critics.
“Arguably, he doesn’t even have imitators; no one would dare,” Koresky wrote on the British Film Institute website. His 2011 film “The Deep Blue Sea,” based on a Terence Rattigan play. Starred Rachel Weisz as a woman torn between her dependable husband and feckless lover.
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