Children

Directed by Terence Davies

A man reflects on his childhood of bullying, Catholic school, and the loss of his abusive father to illness, seeking understanding and closure amidst the ghosts of his past.
Children is an austere early work from Terence Davies, already showing the visual control and emotional precision that would define his later films. Its portrait of a boy growing up amid violence, Catholic guilt and emerging sexuality is deliberately bleak, but the fragmented memories and quiet pain give the film an unmistakably personal power.

Children

Directed by Terence Davies

A man reflects on his childhood of bullying, Catholic school, and the loss of his abusive father to illness, seeking understanding and closure amidst the ghosts of his past.

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Children is an austere early work from Terence Davies, already showing the visual control and emotional precision that would define his later films. Its portrait of a boy growing up amid violence, Catholic guilt and emerging sexuality is deliberately bleak, but the fragmented memories and quiet pain give the film an unmistakably personal power.