TERENCE DAVIES: ARTIST OF TRANSFORMATION
Kathleen Norris on TERENCE DAVIES (1945-2023)
I wrote about some of Terence Davies’ films in Soul Telegram issue #40, but since hearing of his recent death at the age of 77, I feel compelled to collect my thoughts about him and also share what others have been saying about his remarkable body of work. Critic Peter Bradshaw believes that for Davies, "The key word is transfiguration,” writing that for him “the act of memory and cinema transfigured the pain and shame of what he endured of abuse and bigotry in his own life.” He adds that “working without irony or affectation…like Proust, he saw the awful link between art and pain as the agents of truth and the fixity of meaning.” For anyone who’s experienced rejection simply for being themselves, Davies’ work is an inspiration.
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