Screened to unprecedented acclaim at Cannes, OF TIME AND THE CITY marks the much-welcome return to the screen of Terence Davies (DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH), arguably the UK’s most distinctive filmmaker. Created as part of the Digital Departures scheme, set up by North West Vision and Media to tie in with Liverpool’s City of Culture status, this idiosyncratic and hugely personal paean to Davies’s Liverpool hometown brilliantly blends a poetic verbal account of Davies’ early life in Liverpool with contemporary and archive footage of the city. Narrated by Davies himself with impassioned grace and humour, this is one of the cinematic events of the year.
Screenwriter, novelist, actor, filmmaker and one of Britain’s most treasured (yet under-funded) artists, Terence Davies (House of Mirth, Distant Voices, Still Lives) will attend this screening and discuss his work on stage afterwards.
