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Verenigd Koninkrijk
Drama
85 minuten

geregisseerd door Terence Davies
met Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite en Lorraine Ashbourne

Het leven van de leden van een Liverpools gezin in de jaren 1940 - 1950 wordt voor het voetlicht gehaald. De autoriteit van de vader blijft na diens dood aanwezig en lijkt over te gaan op de volgende generatie.

Spot info:

Studio: BFI Video

DVD Release Date: July 30, 2007


Director: Terence Davies


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Set in a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles, Terence Davies' film Distant Voices, Still Lives is an elegiac and intensely autobiographical meditation on a post-War working-class childhood.

Terence Davies's stunning debut feature film Distant Voices, Still Lives was instantly recognised as a masterpiece on its release in 1988 and the director hailed as one of Britain's most gifted and remarkable filmmakers. Re-released in April 2007 as part of a complete retrospective season of Terence Davies's films at BFI Southbank, it was once again showered with critical acclaim.

The writer-director offers a terrifying tension between the public solidarity of pub sing-a-longs, marriage celebrations and mourning and the private horror of domestic abuse, depression and personal dreams sought and destroyed. The men are the most flawed, but the women, though the heroines of the piece, are compromised too: 'Why did you marry him, mam?' asks a daughter. 'He was nice. He was a good dancer...' It's a heartbreaking work. Its cast are phenomenal; its songs flow through the film like blood; and Davies is unflinching in his hunt for truth and full of nothing but love and understanding for his characters. A masterpiece.


Format: PAL

DVD Size: 4.72 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 81 minutes

Type: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 OAR | Anamorphic Widescreen

Sound (main feature): English DD2.0

Subtitles: optional English



DISC FEATURES:

# Feature commentary by director Terence Davies.
# Video interview with director Terence Davies.
# Filmed introduction with Art Director Miki van Zwanenberg.
# Original trailer.


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