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Distant voices, still lives /

Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: BFIVD733 | BFIPublisher: [London] : BFI, [2007]Description: 1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 p. : col. ; 18cm.)Content type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

791.4372 22

Production credits:

Art directors, Miki Van Zwanenberg, Jocelyn James ; photography, William Diver, Patrick Duval.

Cast: Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams, Lorraine Ashbourne.Summary: "An impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. The first part, Distant voices, opens with grown siblings Eileen, Maisie, and Tony, and their mother arranged in mourning clothes before the photograph of their smiling father. Soon after, the family poses in a similar tableau, but for a happier occasion--Eileen's wedding. While relatives sing at her reception, Eileen hysterically grieves for her dad, and recalls happy times of her youth. Tony and Maisie's memories, however, are more troubled. ... In Still lives, set (and filmed) two years later, the siblings are settled in life, but not all happily. For Eileen, relief from her drab existence comes only when singing at the pub."

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-02911 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050277354

Special features: Full feature commentary by director Terence Davies; filmed interview with Terence Davies; filmed introduction with Art Director Miki van Zwanenberg ; original trailer.

Originally produced as motion picture in 1988.

Rated - 12; suitable only for persons of 12 years and over.

DVD ; Region 2.

Colour recording system: PAL.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

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