Distant Voices, Still Lives

IMDb link: 0095037
IMDb rating: 7.4 (5,706 votes)
Genres: Drama, Music
Director: Terence Davies
Cast: Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams and others

Release date: 31 Mar 1989
Release year: 1988
Runtime: 84 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, West Germany
Keywords: singing, liverpool, wedding, 1950s, 1940s, urination, nonlinear timeline, wife abuse, domestic abuse, abusive husband

Plot:

In 1950s Liverpool, a family prepares for the wedding of their eldest daughter, Eileen. This ceremony is an opportunity for the siblings to remember their father, a violent and cold character who occasionally showed love for his children. Over time, the other two children in the household also marry. Their lives are then punctuated by memories of their youth. Two realities merge together, the present and the past, which seem inseparable.

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