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.
Credits
Death and Transfiguration Cast
Name |
Character |
Iain Munro
He was 31, now 73 years old
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as Robert Tucker as a Child |
Terry O'Sullivan
He was 67, 91 years old when he died
|
as Robert Tucker in Middle-Age |
Wilfrid Brambell
He was 70, 72 years old when he died
|
as Robert Tucker |
Death and Transfiguration Crew