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With an unfailing eye for place, decor, costume, and gesture, the director glides his camera through tangles of memories to evoke joys and horrors with a similar sense of wonder.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Overview
The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series (along with "Trilogy" and "The Long Day Closes") is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. Through a series of exquisite tableaux Davies creates a deeply affecting photo album of a troubled family wrestling with the complexity of love.
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A gripping and original piece of work, itself sure to be remembered as one of the finest films of the year.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
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Just as you think you have its moves all doped out, a scene of such shocking beauty flashes before you that it takes your breath away.
Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times
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When a forty-four-year-old man makes a movie about his family and friends sitting around singing old tunes, you certainly don't expect an unforgettable amalgam of humor and heartbreak. But that is precisely what Terence Davies delivers.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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Screen dreams are strangest and strongest when they hit close to home. In Terence Davies' searing [Distant Voices, Still Lives]... mystery resides in the vision of his mother, magically poised on the hall sill, washing the outside windows.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
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