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.. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 7.5/10 | |
Released: | January 1, 1983 | |
Runtime: | 23 min | |
Genres: | Drama Short | |
Companies: | British Film Institute BFI | |
Cast: | Wilfrid Brambell Terry O'Sullivan Iain Munro Jeanne Doree | |
Crew: | Terence Davies | |
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