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Article: Terence Davies
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- Film & History
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Wendy Everett. Terence Davies. Manchester University Press, 2OO4. 246 pages, $69.95.
Remarkable Balance
How do you solve a problem like Terence Davies? How do you catch a cloud and pin it down? The straightforward answer is, leave the cloud alone; this gifted British film maker is a oneoff, a poet of music, time and memory, whose unique quality is emotional more than intellectual. One of the many strengths of this first full-length study of the director is that it never loses sight of this blend of mind and heart. Wendy Everett has achieved a remarkable balance between the two, and the result is an outstanding book.
Davies's haunted yet lyrical world is the direct result of his upbringing, ...