Distant Voices, Still Lives is Terence Davies’ masterwork. Its naked and sober imagery can be labelled neorealism, kitchen sink and stylised hyperrealism - all at the same time. The city is grey, the clothes are grey, the faces are grey. A hideous and brutal man high-handedly rules his wife and three children.
Film music is usually there to underscore visual images and atmosphere. Davies employs music in a quite different manner; he uses popular songs, mostly jolly ones, from the period the story is set in. Some of them are part of the soundtrack, others are performed by the characters – not as musical numbers, however, but as pub sing-alongs! The effect of this assemblage of music and pictures is intense and it gives the film many extra dimensions.
Svein Inge Sæther
| 05. mars | 19:00 | Nova 10 |  |
ORIGINAL TITLE
Distant Voices, Still Lives
ENGLISH TITLE
Distant voices, Still Lives
SELECTION: Cinerama
COUNTRY: UK
LANGUAGE: English
SUBTITLES: None
PROD. YEAR: 1988
RUNNING TIME: 85 minutes
DIRECTOR: Terence Davies
WRITER: Terence Davies
PRODUCER: Jennifer Howarth, Colin MacCabe
PHOTO: William Diver, Patrick Duval
PRODUCTION: Channel Four Films, BFI
CAST: Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams, Lorraine Ashbourne
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