Early in Of Time and the City (2008), Terence Davies’ documentary collage that brings the postwar Liverpool of his youth and dreams to vivid life, he offers us the key to unlock his career. “We love the place we hate, then hate the place we love. We leave the place we love, then spend a lifetime trying to regain it,” he says in intimate voiceover, as if whispering this truth directly into our ears. In the nine films he has made during his 40-year career, Davies has repeatedly wrestled with this…
I think about things like the light in Days of Heaven... Or the beautiful sense of sorrow in Late Spring by Ozu.