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Distant Voices, Still Lives

Period & History • Classics, Drama, PG-13, 01-Jan-1988

Set in a world before Elvis, a Liverpool before the Beatles, Terence Davies' debut feature is a remarkable evocation of working-class family life in the 40s and 50s and a visionary exploration of memory. In a powerful succession of searing vignettes, Davies paints an autobiographical picture of a family dominated by an oppressive patriarch.

Tags
Autobiographies, 1940s, 1950s, Nostalgia
Cast
Freda Dowie Mrs Davies, the mother
Peter Postlethwaite Tommy Davies, the father
Angela Walsh Eileen
Crew
Terence Davies director

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