Metrograph

An exquisite, sensual, and achingly personal work of art from the late, great Davies, set in Davies’s hometown of Liverpool in the 1950s. The directorial surrogate is young Bud, a movie-mad child on the verge of sexual awakening, and in one unforgettable bravura sequence, set to Debbie Reynold’s “Tammy,” Davies brings together the three formative spaces of he and Bud’s youths: the church, the classroom, and the cinema.

35mm print courtesy of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts Moving Image Archives.

Distributor: AGFA