The revered director and lyrical chronicler of working-class life in Distant Voices, Still Lives, died peacefully at home after a short illness
Terence Davies, the film-maker regularly hailed by critics as among Britain’s greatest, has died aged 77., starring Pete Postlethwaite, was working on a new project at the time of his illness and only two years ago releasedDavies was admired for his low-voltage, sensitive approach to presenting real-life drama, allowing actors to register small changes in emotion.
He explained he had never lived with a partner, male or female, or really wanted to do so: “I’m not that good at life,” he said. “Because of that business of interaction between people and not being able to interpret things properly.”Gilbey suggested he may in fact have understood things too well. “The one thing I can’t bear now is atmospheres,” Davies said, remembering his father’s long malevolent silences in his early childhood.
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