It’s a Beautiful Day
September 13th, 2011

This beautiful song is featured in the third part of Terence Davies’s Trilogy, Death and Transfiguration (1983). Davies uses music to moving effect in his autobiographical film about growing up as a closeted gay man in post-war Liverpool, but this clip takes us back to the golden age of Hollywood musicals, evoking a certain naivete that Davies possibly yearns for as he looks back at his harsh upbringing.

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