If you loved Distant Voices, Still Lives, try Bird

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Distant Voices, Still Lives

1988 · dir. Terence Davies

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Theyboth carry the gut punch, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Drama / Music territory. If that's the register that drew you to Distant Voices, Still Lives, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Bird is

Bird meets Miles without the bebop. A saxophone prodigy lands in 1940s New York playing like lightning in a bottle. His fall into addiction fractures what’s left of his genius and the people who bet on it. Eastwood’s trumpet carries the wreckage.

If you loved Distant Voices, Still Lives, try Bird

Distant Voices, Still Lives

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What Bird is

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