Review of Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) by Jonathan H — 25 Sep 2008
Far and away the best film to ever come out of the British Isles, Distant Voices, Still Lives is a beautiful, frightening and heartwrenching work that shuns sentimentality for repressed emotion, neglects class-orientated shock value in favour of the bare facts, and never sells itself short by attempting a final payoff.
The lives of the family it portrays simply renew themselves, for better or worse, in a never-ending purgatory offset only by song, an ingredient the characters crave like junkies.
This review of Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) was written by Jonathan H on 25 Sep 2008.
Distant Voices, Still Lives has generally received very positive reviews.
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