British director Terence Davies, revered for masterful films including The Long Day Closes, Distant Voices, Still Lives, and The House of Mirth, has died at the age of 77 after a short illness, according to an announcement on his social media accounts. His other movies include The Deep Blue Sea starring Rachel Weisz, A Quiet Passion about Emily Dickinson, and 2021’s Benediction. Davies had a hardscrabble childhood in Liverpool before breaking into the movies with a precocious series of short films. The British Film Institute notes that many of his films are centered on the experience of being an outsider, fueled by his own experience as a gay man in a homophobic era.
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