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Article: The house of mirth: An interview with director Terence Davies and producer Olivia Stewart
- Article from:
- Literature/Film Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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The British director Terence Davies and the producer Olivia Stewart have been a collaborative team for over fifteen years. Their partnership is responsible for Distant Voices, Still Lives (1985), The Long Day Closes (1992), and The Neon Bible (1995). Davies's earlier films comprise his "Liverpool Trilogy": Children (1976), Madonna and Child (1980), and Death and ... Transfiguration (1983).1 His work is characterized by a highly visual, rather than verbal/visual, approach to subject. Intimate and introspective, exacting and elegant, Davies's films are autobiographical studies of family love and the legacy of family violence, of gender and sexuality, and of integrity and loneliness. ...