Terry O'Sullivan

Children/Madonna and Child/Death and Transfiguration Director Davies confronts his childhood demons in the guise of Liverpudlian Robert Tucker, a man torn between his homosexuality and Catholic faith. (UCLA)

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. Part three of "The Terence Davies Trilogy." (anonymous)