Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

Directed by

Terence Davies

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 135 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film shows the daily lives of a working-class family in Liverpool from the 1940s into the early 1950s. It focuses on how music, movies, and the local pub shaped their close community.

melancholicnostalgiclyricalslow-burnintimateevocativebitter-sweetgritty

What happens

Distant Voices, Still Lives is a 1988 British period drama film written and directed by Terence Davies. It evokes working-class family life in Liverpool during the 1940s and early 1950s, paying particular attention to the role of popular music, Hollywood cinema, light entertainment and the public house within this tight-knit community. The film won the Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association. In 1988 the film won the Golden Leopard of the Locarno Film Festival. In 2007 the British Film Institute re-printed and distributed the film across some of Britain's most high-profile independent cinemas, prompting The Guardian newspaper to describe Distant Voices, Still Lives as "Britain's forgotten cinematic masterpiece". In a 2011 poll carried out by Time Out of the 100 greatest British films of all time, Distant Voices, Still Lives was ranked third. The film is now sometimes seen as one of the best films ever made. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• Tears in the Rain (1988)
• The Dressmaker (1988)
• On the Black Hill (1988)
• The Nature of the Beast (1988)
• Appuntamento a Liverpool (1988)
• Blueberry Hill (1988)
• A World Apart (1988)
• Across the Lake (1988)