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Synopsis: The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. The first part, 'Distant Voices', opens with grown siblings Eileen (Angela Walsh), Maisie (Lorraine Ashbourne) and Tony (Dean Williams), and their mother (Freda Dowie) arranged in mourning clothes before the photograph of their smiling father (Pete Postlethwaite). Soon after, the family poses in a similar tableau, but for a happier occasion - Eileen's wedding. While relatives sing at her reception, Eileen hysterically grieves for her dad, and recalls happy times of her youth. Tony and Maisie's memories, however, are more troubled. Davies intermingles and contrasts scenes like the family peacefully lighting candles in church with the brutal man beating his wife and terrorizing his young children. In 'Still Lives', set (and filmed) two years later, the siblings are settled in life, b
Genre: Drama, Music
Director(s): Terence Davies
Production: Film Four International
  10 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
83
Rotten Tomatoes:
79%
PG-13
Year:
1988
85 min
336 Views


- It was Schmeling, Scouse.

- You're wrong. Schmeling never won the title.

The heavyweight champions were...

Jack Sharkey, Primo Carnera,

Braddock,

Baer...

No, I tell a lie, Baer then Braddock.

And then Joe Louis,

who held that title till...

1948 from 1937.

Come on, Scouse.

It takes a worried man

To sing a worried song

It takes a worried man

To sing a worried song

It takes a worried man

to sing a worried song

I'm worried now, but I won't be worried long

Thanks for coming home, son.

I got compassionate leave, Mom.

Was

...wrong...

...lad.

OK, Dad.

OK.

So wherever she may be

Go bring her back to me

Roll along

Roll along

Kentucky

Moon

More band!

Whoopie!

I like pickled onions

I like pickled cabbage

Piccalilli is all right with a bit of

cold meat on a Sunday night

I like Tommy-a-toes

But the best thing...

- Your gran's in fine fettle.

- Just come back from the Isle of Man.

She should have stayed there.

She's just like me dad and I bleedin' hate her.

- Whoopie!

- More bleeding punch!

Don't fall Mom

Please don't fall

Why did you marry him, Mom?

He was nice.

He was a good dancer

Here I go again

I hear those trumpets blow again

All a glow again

Taking a chance on love

Here I slide again

About to take that ride again

Starry-eyed again...

- No! Never be like that!

- No! Tommy, no!

Tommy, no! Please, Tommy!

Oh, Tommy, no!

Shut up. Shut up!

- Aaah!

- Shut up, shut up!

Shut up!

I never would try

But now I'm taking the game up

And the ace of hearts is high

Things are mending now

I see a rainbow blending now

We'll have a happy ending now

Taking a chance on love

If anything happens to my mom...

...Ill bleedin' kill you.

Go on, Maisie, give us Barefoot Days

Barefoot days

When we were just a couple of kids

Barefoot days

And all the things we did

We'd go down to a shady nook

Use a bent pin for a hook

And we'd fish all day, we'd fish all night

But the goddamn fish refused to bite

And then we'd slide

Down someone's backyard door

Slide and slide

Till our pants was tore

Then we'd have to go home

We'd have to go to bed

While our mother got busy

with the needle and thread

Oh, boy

What joy we had in barefoot days

Make sure there's room in there.

Tommy, where are the kids?

Where are the kids?

Come in. Come in.

Where the bleedin' hell have you been?

- They're getting closer!

- They're gonna bomb us!

Sing, Eileen.

Sing.

Roll out the barrel

We'll have a barrel of fun

Roll out the barrel

We've got the blues on the run

Zing boom tararrel

We'll have a song of good cheer

Now's the time to roll the barrel

Cos the gang's all here

How are you, Ei?

OK, mom.

What's scarlet fever, mom?

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Terence Davies

Terence Davies (born 10 November 1945) is an English screenwriter, film director, novelist and actor. He is best known as the writer and director of Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and The Long Day Closes (1992) as well the collage film Of Time and the City (2008). more…

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