Bud é um garoto solitário e introvertido de 12 anos. Ele é o espectador de sua própria infância, que transcorre entre o calor do lugar, junto de sua mãe e seus irmãos, o burburio do bairro e as salas de cinema, onde encontra uma fonte inesgotável de sensações. A hostilidade dos professores e colegas de turma e a descoberta de sua homossexualidade intensificam a sua solidão!
A temática gay é sutil , mas óbvia desde a segunda cena (LINDA!) onde Bud olha um jovem trabalhador sem camisa , da janela de um dos quartos de sua casa, com uma mistura de desejo, incerteza e vergonha, pois o pegaram observando o jovem trabalhador... É o começo de sua sexualidade. Em outra cena, temos o Cristo crucificado (o mesmo ator que faz o trabalhador, também faz o Cristo) em alusão à luta interior entre o sagrado e o sexual. Esse garoto é gay, embora talvez ainda não saiba!
O filme é a terceira e última parte da trilogia autobiográfica sobre a juventude do Diretor Terence Davies. Davies usa de recursos como inserções de pequenos diálogos, de vários filmes e canções para evocar o conteúdo emocional da vida de Bud. Interessantemnete o filme não conta uma história; é sobre as memórias, as emoções e sentimentos dos personagens, muitas vezes expressados simbolicamente. É cinema da melhor qualidade! The Long Day Closes, foi selecionado para o Festival de Cannes e ganhou o Evening Standard Award de melhor roteiro na Grã-Bretanha.
The Long Day Closes, Terence Davies' blissful, evocative film, follows a few months in the life of 12-year-old Bud, in impressionistic snatches of his everyday existence growing up in Liverpool, England, in 1956. Bud is a lonely and quiet child whose moments of solace occur when he sits in rapture at the local cinema, watching towering and iconic figures on the movie screen. The movies give Bud the strength to get through another day as he deals with his oppressive school environment and his burgeoning homosexuality. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Trivia: The opening scene includes a shot of a tattered poster for The Robe, a film that has particular significance as the first CinemaScope feature ever released, hanging on a brick wall in the rain.
The Long Day Closes, a great gay film, (is) simply one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen. -- AfterElton Blog, http://www.afterelton.com/blog
Terence Davies’s masterpiece (The Long Day Closes) is a glorious, exultant hymn to the cinema that doubles as a coming of age drama, hinging on the sexual awakening of Davies’ 12-year-old screen self, Bud. Wracked with guilt at his homosexuality, brutalized at school and trapped within the drabness of 1950s Liverpool, Bud finds solace and release in the movies and music of the period, which provide the soundtrack to Davies’ meticulously constructed film… Fantasy sequences and moments of unfettered joy are mixed with stretches of loneliness and misery. It’s that meshing of melancholia and magic that makes The Long Day Closes something unique, as Davies delivers one emotional wallop after another. This is one of the finest films in British post-war cinema. -- Rick Burin, Moviemail-online
Only a few directors have merged illusion and reality with such delicacy. A montage that shows Bud going through the ritual of school and church, set to the theme from Tammy sung by Debbie Reynolds, may seem silly or sacrilegious. But Davies gives it a wrenching poignancy that turns understatement into a spectacle and the film into a small miracle. -- Rolling Stone
I adore this film. This is probably one of the greatest British films ever made. -- CathodeRayTube Blog, http://cathoderaytube.blogspot.com/2008/08/terence-davies-long-day-closes.html
The Long Day Closes, Terence Davies's reminiscence of growing up in Liverpool in the 1950, is a magical coming-of-age movie, triumphantly stylized and suffused with emotion. -- Stephen Farber, Movieline
Leigh McCormack, top, is Bud and Kirk McLaughlin plays the laborer and Christ.
Note the name of work site: Smitten (Apaixonado)
Clip
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Video of Siskel & Ebert Television Review
http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/atm/reviews.html?sec=6&subsec=the+long+day+closes
Title: The Long Day Closes (O Fim De Um Longo Dia)
Director: Terence Davies
Gender: Drama/Biography
Runtime: 85 min
Country: England
Cast: Leigh McCormack (Bud), Marjorie Yates (Mother), Anthony Watson (Kevin), Nicholas Lamont (John), Ayse Owens (Helen); Kirk McLaughlin (Laborer / Christ)
Language: English; legendas em PT-BR by espantalho
IMDB (7.2/ stars): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104753/
Links
http://rapidshare.com/files/144178605/The_Long_Day_Closes.avi.001
http://rapidshare.com/files/144183043/The_Long_Day_Closes.avi.002
http://rapidshare.com/files/144187550/The_Long_Day_Closes.avi.003
http://rapidshare.com/files/144192145/The_Long_Day_Closes.avi.004
http://rapidshare.com/files/144193910/The_Long_Day_Closes.avi.005
Links para a versão filme by "frombr," incluindo os extras
http://rapidshare.com/files/147106500/pedrox-espantalho.avi.001.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/147106448/pedrox-espantalho.avi.002.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/147106503/pedrox-espantalho.avi.003.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/147106486/pedrox-espantalho.avi.004.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/147106472/pedrox-espantalho.avi.005.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/147149732/pedrox-espantalho.avi.006.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/147149738/pedrox-espantalho.avi.007.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/147143746/pedrox-espantalho.avi.008.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/147143749/pedrox-espantalho.avi.009.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/147143777/pedrox-espantalho.avi.010.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/147185297/pedrox-espantalho.avi.011.html
Extras
http://rapidshare.com/files/147228781/Behind_the_scenes.avi.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/147228772/Designing_memory._An_interv._with_Ch.Hobbs.avi.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/147228783/trailer.avi.html
Legendas em PT-BR by espantalho
http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/3334589/the-long-day-closes-pb
Manuel Bandera (además de ser lindo) es maravilloso cantando preciosas coplas españolas en esta película. Vale la pena verla para verlo y oírlo cantar. ~ Quique
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