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Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series (along with "Trilogy" and "The Long Day Closes") is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. Through a series of exquisite tableaux Davies creates a deeply affecting photo album of a troubled family wrestling with the complexity of love.
Style:
anthology, historical drama, independent film, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, crying, complex, eighties ...
Plot:
biopic, wedding, abusive father, wife abuse, domestic abuse, psychology, nazi, holocaust, bad father, singer, world war two, parents and children, family life, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, society, family problems, working class, hypocrisy, religions or cults, time, happiness, house, domestic violence, church ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 50s, year 1988, 40s
Place:
liverpool, england, europe
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