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Of Time and the City

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Of Time and the City
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NR,1hr 17min
Genre:
Documentary
Released:
January 21, 2009
Director:
Terence Davies
Distributor:
Strand Releasing
Synopsis: British filmmaker Terence Davies pays homage to the city of his birth in this visual essay on the seaside town of Liverpool. Described by Davies as "a love song and a eulogy," Of Time and the City uses vintage home movies and newsreel footage to paint a portrait of the Liverpool he knew as a child, a tough working-class community where decay and resilience walked side by side, even as many of the efforts to "improve" Liverpool in the '60s accomplished little beyond robbing it of its character and ... Full Synopsis
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Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
''Documentary'' is too impersonal a word and ''visual poem'' is too mushy a phrase to describe Of Time and the City, a short, beautiful, characteristically sublime memory piece by the great British auteur Terence Davies. Full Review
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81
Universal Acclaim
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Based on 9 critic reviews
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