Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

Director: Terence Davies

I never would have thought that a film about births, marriages and deaths in a working-class Liverpudlian family in the 1940s & '50s could be unlike anything I'd ever seen before... but Distant Voices, Still Lives is remarkable. A non-linear series of episodes that often seems more like photographs set to music than drama, and yielding some extraordinarily touching moments, Davies's intensely personal, autobiographical film is a lovingly crafted triumph.