This truly stange British production looks at a sepia-toned past where memory is revisited only through song. Everybody sings, all the time, developing a wonky revision of a family's life around the turn of the century (plus a few decades before and after). It's hit and miss, failing to really generate a really coherent vision of the past. Pete Postlethwaite provides the film's only standout performance, but it's so brief as to be quite unmemorable.
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Distant Voices, Still Lives
Reviewed by
Christopher Null
on Dec 3 2002
DVD Release Date: December 1, 1989
DVD Release Date: December 1, 1989
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