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A 1988 British period drama film by Terence Davies, evoking working-class family life in Liverpool in the 1940s and 1950s. The film won several awards and is considered a masterpiece of British cinema.
Distant Voices, Still Lives: Directed by Terence Davies. With Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams. The lives of an English working-class family are told out of order in a free-associative manner.
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- Drama, Music
- Terence Davies
- 1989-03-31
Bracingly original and beautifully composed, Distant Voices, Still Lives is an invigorating period drama that finds director Terence Davies in peak form. Read Critics Reviews
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- Terence Davies
- PG-13
- Freda Dowie
A film by Terence Davies about his working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool. The film uses flashbacks, songs, and free-association to depict the father's role and the children's memories.
May 9, 2016 · Distant Voices, Still Lives. By Richard Brody. August 6, 2021. The British director Terence Davies conjures a decade and a half—from the Second World War through the nineteen-fifties—in the...
- Condé Nast
Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a joyous occasion, but through flashbacks, it becomes clear that the family was not always happy. Their father was physically abusive to his wife and left the children emotionally traumatized.
Distant Voices, Still Lives presents an evocative account of working-class life in Liverpool, England during the 1940s and 50s.
