  Of Time And The City (2008) (Dvd)Of Time And The City (2008) (Dvd)
UPC Number: 712267281329
Actors: Terence Davies
Directors: Terence Davies
Format: Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English
Region: Region 1
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Strand Releasing
Release date: May 12, 2009
Run time: 74 minutes
Product Description
From the original voice of British auteur Terence Davies 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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