(Sunday) Movie Meetup — Distant Voices, Still Lives — Meet from 1pm, film at 2pm

"... this film is a masterpiece ..."
★★★★★ Andrew Pulver, The Guardian

We're going to see Terence Davies' acclaimed 1988 film, Distant Voices, Still Lives.

We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 1 pm, to say hello and chat. Afterwards, there will be time to stop and talk about the film.

Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.

ABOUT THE FILM

"Set in a world before Elvis, a Liverpool before the Beatles, Terence Davies' debut feature is a remarkable evocation of working-class family life in the 40s and 50s and a visionary exploration of memory.

"These companion pieces, shot two years apart on tight budgets with BFI support, evoke his upbringing in Liverpool after the war in a working-class home dominated by the violence of his father, fearsomely played by then newcomer Pete Postlethwaite."
— BFI Introduction

"It’s a heartbreaking work. Its cast are phenomenal; its songs flow through the film like blood; and Davies is unflinching in his hunt for truth and full of nothing but love and understanding for his characters. A masterpiece."
★★★★★ Dave Calhoun, Time Out

"Its austere beauty, artistry and wrenching sadness are undimmed after 30 years, and there is nothing distant or still about it."
★★★★★ Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

"With an unfailing eye for place, décor, costume, and gesture, the director glides his camera through tangles of memories to recover joys and horrors."
★★★★ Richard Brody, The New Yorker