Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) Terence Davies, Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Drama, Music

rarefilm — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 22:43:18 +0000

The second film in Terence Davies’s autobiographical series (‘Trilogy’, ‘The Long Day Closes’) is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies’s own family. The first part, ‘Distant Voices’, opens with grown siblings Eileen (Angela Walsh), Maisie (Lorraine Ashbourne) and Tony (Dean Williams), and their mother (Freda Dowie) arranged in mourning clothes before the photograph of their smiling father (Pete Postlethwaite). Soon after, the family poses in a similar tableau, but for a happier occasion – Eileen’s wedding. While relatives sing at her reception, Eileen hysterically grieves for her dad, and recalls happy times of her youth. Tony and Maisie’s memories, however, are more troubled. Davies intermingles and contrasts scenes like the family peacefully lighting candles in church with the brutal man beating his wife and terrorizing his young children. In ‘Still Lives’, set (and filmed) two years later, the siblings are settled in life, …

Also Known As (AKA): Voces distantes, Voci lontane… sempre presenti, Vozes Distantes Vidas Suspensas, Entfernte Stimmen – Stilleben

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File Name : Distant Voices Still Lives 1988.avi
File Size : 1113 MB
Resolution : 704×400
Duration : 01:20:32
Video : MPEG-4 Visual (XviD), 1 540 Kbps, 25.000 fps
Audio : AC-3 (AC3), 192 Kbps (CBR), 48.0 KHz, 2 channels, 2 streams

Quality: DVDRip
Language: English
Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Drama, Music

Distant_Voices_Still_Lives_1988.rar

Angela Walsh – RareFilm

Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) Terence Davies, Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Drama, Music