If you loved Distant Voices, Still Lives, try The Long Day Closes

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Distant Voices, Still Lives

1988 · dir. Terence Davies

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Both films are directed by Terence Davies, and they sit in Drama 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.

What The Long Day Closes is

Terry Gilliam’s memory plays Ken Loach in a Liverpool of 1959. A shuttered boy haunts matinees until the flickering gods become his elders, schoolyard fists his daily bruise. That 4:3 Technicolor glow keeps the roof from collapsing.

If you loved Distant Voices, Still Lives, try The Long Day Closes

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