Distant Voices, Still Lives

...Terence Davies’ musical soap delicately captures the “poetry of the ordinary”.

Davies casts an unapologetically myth-making eye over his own adolescence in wartime Liverpool, forging primal drama out of father-son conflicts, sisterly solidarity and maternal fortitude.

...Distant Voices, Still Lives remains one of the most profoundly spiritual films in recent decades.

In this highly stylized, cinematic portrait of his family, there is no enhancement, no glitz, noteven much of a plot. Rather, Davies leaves us with a series of impressions, presented non-chronologically, that evoke memories...