Of Time and the City

Of Time and the City

A love song and a eulogy

200874 min7.1 / 10

A deeply personal, elegiac meditation on memory, place, and loss that weaves the director's intimate recollections of Liverpool with broader reflections on English history and personal struggle.

British director Terence Davies reflects on his birthplace of Liverpool - his memories of growing up there and how it has changed in the years since - in the process meditating on the internal struggles and conflicts that have wracked him throughout his life and the history of England during the second half of the 20th century.

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