In this interview, production designer Christopher Hobbs describes building sets for THE LONG DAY CLOSES, creating the special effects, and the unique process of reconstructing director Terence Davies’s childhood memories. The interview was conducted at Hobbs’s home in France in September 2013.
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.