As a tribute to the late British film director Terence Davies, who passed away earlier this month at the age of 77, the Cube presents one of his best-loved films.

Based on memories from his own childhood, Distant Voices, Still Lives was originally conceived of by Davies as two shorter works, shot two years apart on a microscopic budget. The earlier Distant Voices looks at his experience of growing up in a repressive and abusive working-class household, set against the backdrop of austere post-war Liverpool; Still Lives looks at the same family a few years later, reflecting on the brighter opportunities available to them 1950s Britain, not least from the escapism offered by popular music and, of course, cinema.

Impressionistic in its storytelling, the film wonderfully showcases Davies's unique approach to cinematic style, pioneered throughout his earlier short film works and reaching full maturity here:  the condensing of isolated moments of lived experience into a filmic equivalent of 'stream-of-consciousness', a poetic evocation of memory and time, a Proustian cinema of working-class life, full of despair and hope.

Restored by the BFI in 2018, this Proustian wander through a weave of working-class life now vanished begs to be seen on the big screen - we hope to see you there!

"Its austere beauty, artistry and wrenching sadness are undimmed after 30 years, and there is nothing distant or still about it" ***** Guardian

Doors open 7.30 / Film starts at 8pm