Distant Voices, Still Lives

Nostalgic songs dominate Terrence Davies's somber, well-acted, 1988 second film in his autobiographical series in which an abused, working-class, British housewife (Freda Dowie), her two daughters (Angela Walsh/Sally Davies and Lorraine Ashbourne/Susan Flanagan), and her son (Dean Williams) reflect on their family life in Liverpool during the 1940s and 1950s after the hotheaded, abusive husband/father (Pete Postlewaite) dies and reminisce on happier lives two years later.
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