Set in 'a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles', Terence Davies' film 'Distant Voices, Still Lives' is an elegiac and intensely autobiographical meditation on a post-war working-class childhood. Paul Farley's study of the film is both a personal response, as a Liverpudlian and as a poet, and an exploration of Davies' unique visual style, blending the spaces - the 'short halls, stairways, coal cellars and meter cupboards of northern England' - and sounds - the BBC shipping forecast, a pub sing-a-long, the strains of Vaughan Williams and Britten - of memory.
ISBN: | 9781844571390 |
Publication date: | 1st June 2006 |
Author: | Paul Farley |
Publisher: | BFI an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 95 pages |
Series: | BFI Modern Classics |
Genres: |
Films, cinema |