Of Time And The City

Davies highly personal work is actually more poem than traditional film. In it, he reflects upon his early life in the tenements of Liverpool an iconic port town in England, where he lived as the youngest of ten children in a strict Roman Catholic household from his birth after WWII until his departure in the mid 1970s.

Davis (his own voice-over narration) reminisces about his early love of cinema, his burgeoning acceptance of his homosexuality, and his personal relationships with his family and hometown in this seamlessly woven documentary comprised of meticulously chosen found footage, emotionally charged music (including works by Mahler, Sibelius, The Hollies, The Spinners, and Peggy Lee), old radio shows, evocative literary quotes and references. In looking at Liverpool through Davies eyes, the city takes on a mythic quality. When we see it fall on economic hard times, its heartbreaking. Davies is known for being a filmmaker who only selects projects that are close to his heart, and this is no exception.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 13 Maj, 2009