Distant Voices, Still Lives 

April 14th 2010   Terence Davies 1988/UK   85 mins

Terence Davies' fractured chronicle of the life of a

working-class family in the 1940's and 1950's.

Drawing on his own childhood in the  two part film,

 the writer-director offers a terrifying tension between

the pub sing-songs, marriage celebrations and the

horror of domestic abuse and depression.