Distant Voices, Still Lives
Terence Davies,
1988,
84’
The lives of an English working-class family are told out of order in a free-associative manner. The first part, "Distant Voices", focuses on the father's role in the family. The second part, "Still Lives", focuses on his children.
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“The awesome strength of Distant Voices, Still Lives as a whole is that it makes every moment necessary and indelible as well as beautiful. I have every reason to believe that years from now when practically all the other new movies currently playing are long forgotten, it will be remembered and treasured as one of the greatest of all English films.”
Jonathan Rosenbaum1
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, “License to Feel,” Chicago Reader, 18 August 1989.
