In movies such as 'The House of Mirth' and 'The Deep Blue Sea,' the British director gave complex roles to stars who rose to the challenge.
In the very last scene of Terence Davies’ “Benediction” , a World War I veteran sits on a bench and weeps, descending into an anguish so deep and consuming that not even his copious tears can properly express it. We see the tears but don’t hear the sobs; instead the music surges extravagantly on the soundtrack, almost as if it were reaching heavenward, in search of a divine consolation that the man himself may never know.
After his semi-autobiographical films put him on the map, he made his first leap into American filmmaking with “The Neon Bible” , his under-appreciated adaptation of John Kennedy Toole’s novel starring Gena Rowlands. Reviewing the movie for The Times, the critic Kevin Thomas rightly described it as “not like any other period coming-of-age-in-the-South movies you’ve ever seen.
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