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

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The Long Day Closes

1992 · dir. Terence Davies

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Both films are directed by Terence Davies, and they both carry the bittersweet, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Long Day Closes, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Distant Voices, Still Lives is

kitchen-sink melodrama without kitchen-sink uplift. A working-class Liverpool family struggles through postwar austerity under the shadow of a violent patriarch. Davies finds unexpected grace notes amid the gloom, especially in the unexpected bursts of song.

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

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