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  • 1993
  • PG
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 1993
  • PG
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 25 m
The Long Day Closes

Summary Growing up in the wreckage of post-war Liverpool should be a grim experience for sensitive eleven-year-old Bud. He lives in rain-drenched, lice-ridden impoverishment with his mother and hordes of siblings. The secondary school he's just started attending is a breeding ground for bigots and bullies and Bud's the punch-bag. Yet Davies' fil...

Directed By: Terence Davies

Written By: Terence Davies

  • 1993
  • PG
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 1993
  • PG
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 25 m

The Long Day Closes

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 15 Critic Reviews
must-see
85
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
6.9
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Summary Growing up in the wreckage of post-war Liverpool should be a grim experience for sensitive eleven-year-old Bud. He lives in rain-drenched, lice-ridden impoverishment with his mother and hordes of siblings. The secondary school he's just started attending is a breeding ground for bigots and bullies and Bud's the punch-bag. Yet Davies' fil...

Directed By: Terence Davies

Written By: Terence Davies

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 15 Critic Reviews
85
73% Positive
11 Reviews
27% Mixed
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 15 Critic Reviews
85
73% Positive
11 Reviews
27% Mixed
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
All things considered, The Long Day Closes is a remarkable film -- tender and intelligent, long on mood and short on ''action,'' a cinematic poem that stands head and shoulders above the summer harvest of bonehead action thrillers. [23 July 1993, p.C9]
By Edward Guthmann FULL REVIEW
100
The Long Day Closes is a twice-remarkable film. Once, because director Terence Davies opens his personal bottle of memories and makes them interesting to us. Twice, because, in doing so, he triggers our own memories. [11 June 1993]
By Rick Groen FULL REVIEW
100
A singularly beautiful nostalgia piece that radiates with love and sadness, and doesn’t extract one type of feeling from another. It’s a film of aching bittersweetness, impeccably realized, past perfect.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
100
The Long Day Closes posits its pubescent protagonist as a tiny camera absorbing and transforming the reality all around him.
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80
Strength of Davies’ vision is the crux, and it holds the line to the final, confident fadeout.
By Derek Elley FULL REVIEW
60
Though Davies says this is a celebration of what were the best years of his life — he had a doting mum, nice sisters, and school was apparently okay — you'd hate to see what he'd produce if he were depressed, for the overall mood is heavy and glum.
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50
The Long Day Closes is very much the visual equivalent of a verse or a poem: beautiful images, but no narrative.
By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
6.9
75% Positive
6 Ratings
13% Mixed
1 Rating
13% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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75% Positive
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13% Mixed
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13% Negative
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Production Company British Film Institute (BFI), Channel Four Films, Film Four International
Release Date May 28, 1993
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating PG
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Awards

Valladolid International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Evening Standard British Film Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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