Summary:
Set in 1940s England, Distant Voices/Still Lives is a compassionate look at a radically dysfunctional family. The son and his mother must endure the casual and overt cruelties of the bull-necked father. The ongoing abuse takes its toll in the form of failed marriages and misguided attempts at seeking security outside the family unit. As was the case with his earlier short subject tril... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Freda Dowie - (Mother)
Pete Postlethwaite - (Father)
Angela Walsh - (Eileen)
Dean Williams - (Tony)
Lorraine Ashbourne - (Maisie)
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Review:
Terence Davies' semi-autobiographical first full-length feature announced the arrival of a unique talent, one who would fuse the lyrical, poetic style of such maverick directors as Derek Jarman and Peter Greenaway with the kitchen-sink melodrama endemic to the majority of postwar British cinema. Distant Voices, Still Lives unfolds wi... Continue >>

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