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The Long Day Closes
Why this pick
Davies returns to a working-class Liverpool childhood in a ravishingly subjective collage of memory, music, domestic ritual and cinema, with the same ache for vanished time.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1988 1h 24m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Distant Voices, Still Lives
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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The House of Mirth
Why this pick
Its controlled compositions, period songs and quietly devastating attention to social constraint extend the emotional precision and visual melancholy of Davies’s family chronicle.
03
Ratcatcher
Why this pick
A child’s-eye Glasgow portrait rendered through tactile images, fragments of home life and submerged feeling; it shares the original’s poetic, unsentimental memory of working-class surroundings.
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The Souvenir
Why this pick
This restrained autobiographical recollection observes rooms, class, family and damaging intimacy with elliptical storytelling and a patient, quietly accumulating emotional force.
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The Spirit of the Beehive
Why this pick
Its luminous, child-centred recollection turns ordinary domestic spaces, silence and popular culture into an atmosphere of mystery, fear and profound historical sadness.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Freda Dowie
Mother
Dean Williams
Tony
Sally Davies
Eileen as a child
Michael Starke
Dave
Anne Dyson
Granny
Jean Boht
Aunty Nell
Chris Darwin
Red
Andrew Schofield
Les