The Long Day Closes (1992) Closing Sequence

[@MicrowavedChicken454]

Farewell, Terence Davies - thank you for this great film

[@simontreves]

One of my all-time favourite movies. This shot is so eloquent and moving - and how brave of Davies to hold on it for the entire song.

[@weikko79]

Certainly one of the most haunting closing sequences ever in the history of cinema!

[@neilsailing]

Heart breaking...can still hear the voices of my grandparents from long ago and the music coming out of the wooden radio...damp November evenings..the concerned northern voices....those Sunday afternoons. A long lost world..so sad ..gone forever.

[@ambidextra_ambidextra]

🙏😥💗

[@bridekirk]

You have stolen my thoughts :)

[@constantreader8760]

"Time is a school in which we learn/ Time is the fire in which we burn..." -- "For Rhoda" by Delmore Schwartz

[@neilsailing]

Many thanks. appreciated!

[@monkeynuts1806]

A wonderfully moving film - climaxed by the most beautiful song ever written

[@StewartMacArthur1]

The Long Day Closes is a stunning masterpiece.

[@ambidextra_ambidextra]

Took me 28 years to watch this, finally just did(on Amazon Prime in UK) Astonishing and so moving. Cried just reading some of the comments here.

[@oswaldwang]

I can't watch this without crying, looking away for relief, then coming back and crying some more.

[@clockworktim]

Thanks for posting. I remembered this scene vividly only seeing the film once, back when it came out. Now here it is on KZbin, bringing back that stirring scene. This was about as close to a sacred moment I've seen in film. Davies was brave, holding on the sky for the entire song until the moon faded from sight. Saw this in an old vintage movie house in Chicago & I distinctly remember the setting being perfect for the mood. It spellbound the audience. No one got up until the credits were over.

[@nickbaxter8797]

So beautiful. A lovely film and very close to home for anyone with a northern working class upbringing.

[@steerpike66]

A miraculous film. Words cannot describe it.

[@terryosborne5928]

My memories.. on DVD.. to keep and play when I want.. LIFE is GOOD!!!

[@GX2903]

I just done my coursework with this film. An outstanding piece of artwork that featured moving memories and powerful songs.

[@thetodge]

Fucking beautiful. Had the pleasure of meeting Terence Davies twice. Increibly funny, warm person. And his films are stunning. Just ordered this on dvd, cant wait to see it again.

[@renzo6490]

When people sit down to watch a film, they have a certain type of experience in mind : a fairly standard narrative approach with occasional stylistic variations like flash-backs or dream sequences etc. So, if a film goes too far afield from this structure, they feel betrayed. It is as if they expected to see a realistic painting of a seascape but were shown one by J.M.W Turner. It is as if they sat down to read a short story but found, instead, a poem. The Long Day Closes is a poem, a series of impressionistic moments that sharply evoke a past time and place, Catholic Liverpool in the 1950's as it was experienced by a lonely 11 year old boy on the threshold of budding sexuality. A difficult time at best but one made more-so since this young fellow has feelings for men at a time and in a place where such feelings could never be expressed or spoken of safely. And like some poems, this film is peppered with references and allusions that a typical modern American viewer might not pick up on. References to English radio and film shows and their personalities. Old songs and place names. Lines from old films get inserted into and between the dialog. Films like Great Expectations,The Magnificent Ambersons and the old Ealing comedies. Then there is the accent which can be very difficult to understand. Declarative statements will have the same lilting rise at the end which Americans use when asking questions. There are a number of obstacles in the way to understanding what's happening. But even if some is missed, much comes through ....not on a cognitive level but on an intuitive one. Look, I could never convince you that this is a worthy film if such a film is not to your taste. But I was overcome by such strong waves of emotion as I watched it . It conjured up an atmosphere of a long- ago time that felt palpable and that touched me in a way that most conventionally told stories never do

[@ambidextra_ambidextra]

Beautifully put🙏

[@DO-rq7jj]

Do you have a website, or other reviews you could share?

[@renzo6490]

@@DO-rq7jj - Thank you for asking. I don't generally review a film unless I am moved to express my feelings about it. This was one...

[@hotdognights1]

It has a way of getting inside your head like no other film I've seen.

[@stevebell6057]

Rip Terence.

[@vigneshwar654]

Rest in peace master🌻.

[@valegae854]

RIP Terence... ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤

[@Johnconno]

The best English director for years.

[@thetodge]

It's widely available for purchase. Just buy it. It's well worth it.

[@tonebonekoneable]

Masterpiece

[@james7167]

i know leigh mcormack in this film hes my mate he lives a few doors down from me

[@weikko79]

It's not available online, but as someone already said, it's worth buying.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

This is a film about my life.

[@cragarrows]

Pro Cantione Antiqua, directed by Mark Brown

[@DJAngiePangie]

Could anybody tell me where I could watch this online maybe? One of my lecturers showed us five minutes at the beginning and now I really wanna see it!

[@Rongart]

"only 2 other people in the cinema" at the Leeds Film Festival!!!

[@kierans5583]

Haunting

[@Happysundaze]

A really compelling and moving film, I've only seen it once nearly 20 years ago and would love to see it again. Are you listening Channel 4?

[@hellenofile5996]

Just watched it on Channel 4. Extraordinary movie. What an ending.

[@joa.bl06]

❤❤❤

[@heliopathy]

I know what you mean...