Death and Transfiguration
N/A
26 minutes
- Terry O'Sullivan, Iain Munro, Wilfrid Brambell
- Terence Davies
- Drama, Short
- June 22, 1983
- English
- 7.4
Synopsis
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..
