Top Cast
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Terence Davies
Narrator (voice)
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Peter Capaldi
Older Man (uncredited)
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Richard Goulding
Younger Man (uncredited)
Overview
An elegy to time and life, condensing Terence Davies' profoundly humane poetics into little more than one minute, enveloping the viewer in an atmosphere of light and (Davies' own) words.
Rating
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