Cinema Q: Of Time and the City

Great Britain, 2008, 72 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subjects: Documentary, Foreign, Gay/Lesbian, History
Program: Documentary Films
Language: English

DIRECTOR: Terence Davies
Producer: Roy Boulter, Solon Papadopoulos, (executive) Christopher Moll, Lisa Marie Russo
Editor: Liza Ryan-Carter
Screenwriter: Terence Davies
Cinematographer: Tim Pollard
US Distributor: Strand Releasing

Digital presentation - From the original voice of British auteur Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives) comes a visual poem about the director's life in Liverpool from 1945 to 1973. It is a very personal portrait of Liverpool, beyond its Beatles and its football clubs, the home of the writer's birth, where youth and inspiration weave his own story into the recent history of the city with fascinating found footage and a lyrical soundtrack. The visual poem is played out against a backdrop of densely packed urban living and backbreaking domestic labor. But Davies counterpoints the slums with beautiful, soaring music and lifts us into the world of fantasy and collective emotion which makes the misery of life bearable. For lovers of Davies' previous work many of his themes from his earlier narrative pieces thread through this film—Catholicism, homosexuality, violence, death, loss, the glory of cinema, outsiderness and childhood. Narrated by Davies.

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