The Terence Davies Trilogy in order

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. 3 films, 1h 43m in all, in release order.

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   Children

   1976 · 47 min

   Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.

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   Madonna and Child

   1980 · 29 min

   A middle-aged British man struggles to reconcile his homosexuality and his Catholic upbringing.

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   Death and Transfiguration

   1983 · 27 min

   A British man on his deathbed recalls moments from his life.

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