2023-10-07 19:39:28
The British film director and screenwriter Terence Davies, author of the 2022 film “Benediction”, has died at the age of 77 after a brief period of illness, his representative reported this Saturday.
“I am deeply saddened to announce the death of Terence Davies, who passed away peacefully at home in his sleep, after a brief illness, on Saturday, October 7, 2023,” says his agent, John Taylor, in a statement sent to the agency. British PA News. The statement includes the Latin words “Umbra Sumus,” by poet Horace, and an excerpt from British writer Christina Rossetti’s poem titled “When I Am Dead, My Dearest,” both of which had special meaning for Davies.
Born in Liverpool (northwest England) in 1945, he entered the world of cinema in the 1970s and early 1980s, with his trilogy of autobiographical films “Children”, “Madonna And Child” and “Death And Transfiguration”, to later make nine more feature films. Last year he released the Netflix film “Benediction,” based on the life of the English poet Siegfried Sassoon and starring Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi.
In 1988, the filmmaker won the Cannes International Critics’ Prize for “Distant Voices, Still Lives,” a film based on his own family memories of a working-class life in Liverpool in the 1940s and 1950s. .
Stars such as Gillian Anderson, who played Lily Bart in his adaptation of Edith Wharton’s “The House Of Mirth,” worked with him, while Rachel Weisz played Hester Collyer in his 2011 adaptation of the play. by Terence Rattigan from 1952 “The Deep Blue Sea.”
In 2016, “Sex And The City” star Cynthia Nixon played 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson in “A Quiet Passion,” written and directed by Davies.
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