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1988 Certificate 15 Certificate 15 (TBC)
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The second film in Terence Davies’s autobiographical series is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies’s own family. Read more

Starring Carl Chase, Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite, Angela Walsh
Director Terence Davies
Genres Drama

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Distant Voices, Still Lives

The second film in Terence Davies’s autobiographical series is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies’s own family.

Starring Carl Chase, Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams, Lorraine Ashbourne, Sally Davies, Drew Schofield, Debi Jones
Director Terence Davies
Studio BFI
Run time DVD: 1 hr 25 mins
Watch now: 1 hr 25 mins
Certificate DVD: Certificate 15, Watch Online: Certificate 15 (TBC)
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Watch Online: English
Released DVD: 30 Jul 2007
Watch now: 19 Jun 2009
Production year: 1988
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  • Through a fragmented series of almost ritualistic gatherings drawn from his own family's memories of the '40s and '50s,... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 18 out of 19 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Powerful and emotional

    A collection of autobiographical scenes, not always in chronological order, depicting director Davies' post-war (WW2) youth. The ever-reliable Pete Postlethwaite is only one of an excellent cast, and the whole thing has undeniable and raw emotional power. It's a bit like a pub singalong meets Ken Loach. Riveting.

      • Death Fish II from north of Liverpool
      • Posted 07 Nov 2005 13:54

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  • 18 out of 19 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Powerful and emotional

    A collection of autobiographical scenes, not always in chronological order, depicting director Davies' post-war (WW2) youth. The ever-reliable Pete Postlethwaite is only one of an excellent cast, and the whole thing has undeniable and raw emotional power. It's a bit like a pub singalong meets Ken Loach. Riveting.

      • Death Fish II from north of Liverpool
      • Posted 07 Nov 2005 13:54

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    Of Time And The City

    Of Time and the City

    • 27 Oct 2008

    The city is Liverpool. The time is the past. In particular, the past recalled by filmmaker Terence Davies, who was born there in 1945 and lived there for the next 28 years. This is not exactly uncharted territory for Davies, whose feature films Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and The Long Day Closes (1992) are also autobiographical evocations of his childhood, growing up the youngest of ten in a working class Roman Catholic family. (His short films, known collectively as “The Terence... Read more

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