Directed by Terence Davies | 92 mins | 1995
Based on John Kennedy Toole’s Southern Gothic Bildungsroman, Terence Davies’ third feature is both his first adaptation and his first set outside England, but feels just as steeped in heady memory as his earlier works. His vision of 1940s rural Georgia is one seen through the eyes of young David (Drake Bell at age 10; Jacob Tierney at age 15), and illuminated by the arrival of Gena Rowlands as David’s worldly and free-spirited Aunt Mae.