Part of the BAMcinématek series Terence Davies
Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm
Directed by Terence Davies
With Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowdie, Angela Walsh
(1988) 85min, 35mm
This profoundly impressionistic semi-autobiographical portrait of a working-class Catholic family in 1940s Liverpool is widely considered to be Davies’ magnum opus, hailed by The Guardian upon its re-release in 2007 as “Britain's forgotten cinematic masterpiece.” Employing a two-part structure, marvelous use of popular, classical, and spiritual music, and a muted color palette, Davies’ “mesmerizing memory film becomes its own kind of poetry: taut, referential, inward, brilliant” (Los Angeles Times).
