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Otoño de 1936. David Carr (Ian Hart), un joven comunista en paro, deja Liverpool para intervenir en la guerra civil española, dentro del bando republicano, e ingresa en la Brigada Internacional del frente de Aragón. Allí conocerá a muchos milicianos procedentes de toda Europa y Estados Unidos, en especial la española Blanca (Rosana Pastor), una atractiva anarquista. David y Blanca están convencidos de luchar por la defensa de la libertad. La igualdad entre las personas y el compartir tierra y bienes, sin existencia de clases sociales son los ideales que defienden. Pero a veces el enemigo no solo está entre las filas del bando adversario.
Guest at wake
En la Irlanda actual, el padre Greg Pilkington, un joven sacerdote católico, llega a un pueblo para sustituir al antiguo párroco, recientemente fallecido. Pronto tendrá que afrontar dos espinosos problemas: el del secreto de la confesión, aun cuando se trate de delitos denunciables, y el de su homosexualidad, que mantiene en secreto.
Mrs Maines
A woman attempts to escape her domestic problems by fleeing to New York in search of her father. She finds him, and also new problems, some friendship, a romance, and an unexpected career as pro-boxer, to make ends meet.
Factory Girl
In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.
Fat Woman at Party
Eddie and Michael are two 16-year-old gay friends from Liverpool. Berated by his father for his camp behavior, Eddie runs away from his Liverpool home and joins Michael, a streetwise hustler, who is also on the run.
Trilogía compuesta por los tres primeros cortometrajes de Davies ("Children" (1976), "Madonna and Child" (1980) y "Death and Transfiguration" (1983)), que corresponden a distintas etapas de la vida de Robert Tucker: su opresiva infancia, marcada por los malos tratos de su padre y de sus compañeros de colegio; su madurez como gris oficinista atormentado por su homosexualidad, siempre al lado de su madre; y sus últimos días, en los que se ve asaltado por dolorosos recuerdos del pasado.
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.
