The Long Day Closes

“A magical story about a boy’s love affair with the music and movies of the 50s.”

Bud (Leigh McCormack), a quiet boy with few friends, gets through each school day knowing the local cinema is waiting for him at the end of it. In the dark he watches the towering figures on the screen, and the films hold him up against a harsh school and a growing sense that he is different. Terence Davies keeps the focus on Bud, small and still in his seat, and on what the pictures give him.