Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Freda Dowie	...	Mother
	Pete Postlethwaite	...	Father
	Angela Walsh	...	Eileen
	Dean Williams	...	Tony
	Lorraine Ashbourne	...	Maisie
	Sally Davies	...	Eileen as a Child
	Nathan Walsh	...	Tony as a Child
	Susan Flanagan	...	Maisie as a Child
	Michael Starke	...	Dave
	Vincent Maguire	...	George
	Antonia Mallen	...	Rose
	Debi Jones	...	Micky
	Chris Darwin	...	Red
	Marie Jelliman	...	Jingles
	Andrew Schofield	...	Les

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The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series (TRILOGY, THE LONG DAY CLOSES) is 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 (Angela Walsh), Maisie (Lorraine Ashbourne) and Tony (Dean Williams), and their mother (Freda Dowie) arranged in mourning clothes before the photograph of their smiling father (Pete Postlethwaite). 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. Davies intermingles and contrasts scenes like the family peacefully lighting candles in church with the brutal man beating his wife and terrorizing his young children... Written by Anonymous  

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