Distant Voices Still LivesRating: 15 14+
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- Duration
- 85 mins
- Year
- 1988
- Director(s)
- Cast
Director Terence Davies's semi-autobiographical film about growing up in late 40s and early 50s Liverpool is highly original in the way it melds sound and image - its marriage of gentle music with scenes of violence giving the film a haunting, dreamlike quality. The world it portrays is immersed in the drabness of post-war England - it's hard to believe watching it that the boys who would become the Beatles were growing up just around the corner from Davies' characters, ready to kickstart what we think of as the wild and optimistic 60s.
Pete Postlethwaite is especially good as the sadistic father here, but all the performances are excellent.
