I found this excellent Terence Davies film mainly for my father, a now 75 year old scouser with a hankering for the city of his birth.
My father, Like writer and director Davies was born into the city a Catholic, and had a typical Liverpool upbringing throughout the war years and beyond until joining the army as a boy soldier in the mid fifties.
I sat and watched this magnificent film with him..Davies chosen words and music, evocative of more than one childhood clearly.
It is a masterwork and not just for those of the city, or even for those of the era.....Liverpool is a stunning city, unlike any other place on earth and fully deserving of this piece.
Davies waxes lyrically and spits venomous cynicism in equal measure throughout this highly regarded work.
See it when you can.
My father, Like writer and director Davies was born into the city a Catholic, and had a typical Liverpool upbringing throughout the war years and beyond until joining the army as a boy soldier in the mid fifties.
I sat and watched this magnificent film with him..Davies chosen words and music, evocative of more than one childhood clearly.
It is a masterwork and not just for those of the city, or even for those of the era.....Liverpool is a stunning city, unlike any other place on earth and fully deserving of this piece.
Davies waxes lyrically and spits venomous cynicism in equal measure throughout this highly regarded work.
See it when you can.