Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

Directors

Terence Davies

Cast

Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams, Lorraine Ashbourne, Michael Starke, Susan Flanagan, Sally Davies, Nathan Walsh, Andrew Schofield, Antonia Mallen, Vincent Maguire, Debi Jones, Chris Darwin, Marie Jelliman, Pauline Quirke, Jean Boht, Anne Dyson, Frances Dell, Matthew Long

The story

The film is made up of two separate films, shot two years apart, but with the same cast and crew. The first section, 'Distant Voices', chronicles the early life of a working-class Catholic family living under a thoroughly psychotic, abusive, violent and mostly hateful father. The second section, 'Still Lives', sees the children grown up and emerging into a brighter 1950s Britain, only a few years from rock and roll and the Beatles, yet somehow still a lifetime away.

Genres

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