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Saturday 14th February 5:30 PM

Distant Voices, Still Lives 

Director: Terence Davies Country: UK
Cert: PG Year: 1988 Length: 85 mins
Distant Voices, Still Lives

Programme Notes

Cinema Handout (PDF 103KB)

Audience Reaction

Score: 75% Attendance: 121

Links

  • More details on this film at the Internet Movie Database

Synopsis

‘Pete Postlethwaite is the autocratic, hypnotic patriarch of a post-war Liverpool working-class family. The rest of the family struggle in his shadow. Extraordinarily, they can only express themselves through songs, persistent seams of feeling through the beautifully-realised bleakness. ‘Long, stately shots combine with impassioned performances to create a visual tour de force unmatched elsewhere in British cinema…this film is a masterpiece.’ (Andrew Pulver, The Guardian)

Critics

open_quote Formally stunning, a masterfully assembled audiovisual requiem. close_quote Desson Howe, Washington Post


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Awards

Keswick Film Club won the Best New Film Society at the British Federation Of Film Societies awards in 2000.

Since then, the club has won Film Society Of The Year and awards for Best Programme four times and Best Website twice.

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