Death and Transfiguration (1983)

Death and Transfiguration 1983 In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tuckers life hes an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time hes in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother hes a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a childrens choir In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men he recalls lovers and his mothers cremation A nurse sits beside him on his last night in his last breath, he reaches forward and back