Death and Transfiguration (1983)
In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker’s life: he’s an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he’s in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he’s a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children’s choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother’s cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back.
Genre: Drama
Director: Terence Davies
Actors: Angela Rooks, Brian Gilbert, Carol Christmas, Chrissy Roberts, Iain Munro, Jeanne Doree, Ron Metcalfe, Terry O'Sullivan, Virginia Donovan, Wilfrid Brambell
