The Terence Davies Trilogy Collection
A trilogy of short films tell the life of Robert Tucker. "Children" (1976) looks at his birth and formative at an austere boy's school. The bleak environment is not aided by the loveless, violent domestic life he experiences. Nonetheless, his father's death has a major impact on him. In "Madonna and Child" (1980),he is a closeted homosexual working in a grim office and still living at home with his daunting mother. In the final entry, "Death and Transfiguration" (1983),he deals with his mother's death and then faces his own impending doom.
Watch Children
A man's mundane adult life is upended by haunting flashbacks to his tumultuous youth, marked by bullying, rigid Catholic education, and the devastating loss of his abusive father to illness.
Watch Madonna and Child
A middle-aged man's mundane life is turned upside down as he navigates the challenges of caring for his elderly mother, while his online activities and hidden desires threaten to expose his carefully maintained facade.
Watch Death and Transfiguration
A poignant portrayal of a man's life, tracing his evolution from a idyllic Catholic upbringing to caring for his ailing mother and finally, his quiet passing in old age.
