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Christopher Hobbs on THE LONG DAY CLOSES

The Long Day Closes • 20m

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.

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