Terrence Davies on Bruckner:
“My great love is Anton Bruckner. There’s a wonderful moment in the 7th Symphony where there’s a huge climax to this wonderful tune, and then there’s a pause, and then the tune returns on first violins, like a long long echo of what we’ve just heard. Your inner ear has been waiting for some kind of resolution, but it wasn’t waiting for that. It’s devastating. It’s so moving and so beautiful and I think you can do that with film. You can deny expectation, but you’ve always got to imply that expectations are going to be satisfied; but, not...

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