Lorraine Ashbourne, Jean Boht, Carl Chase
A portrait of a Catholic working class family in Liverpool in the 1940s and 1950s.
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January 15, 2009Poetic, evocative and enormously affecting, Davies's autobiographical film is one of the most formally fascinating films I've seen. The atemporal narrative is reminiscent of The Mirror and the shots of empty hallways as well as the shot-reverse-shot sequences of characters lookin...( read more)
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January 26, 2009Terence Davies's autobiographical film of working-class life in 1940s/50s Liverpool.
A brilliant, emotional and powerful film full of great acting. The story is told through memories and switches between childhood and adulthood.
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October 7, 2009yes ...its a film from and for Liverpool . its a poetic film , the title its part of lyrics in many poems . Also for somebody who wants to search more in the film , can see the balances beetwin the Catholicism and Anglicanism ...this is a very thin slide of film , but always h...( read more)
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