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Dissolves in THE LONG DAY CLOSES

Dissolves in THE LONG DAY CLOSES

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Professor Kristin Thompson explores the ways in which dissolves allow Terence Davies to mimic the fluidity and emotional texture of memory in his elegiac coming-of-age film.

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