Screen International by Allan Hunter
It is a striking, sustained artistic achievement, but one as painful and distressing to watch as it must have been to live through.
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United Kingdom · 2018
1h 48m
Director Richard Billingham
Starring Justin Salinger, Ella Smith, Patrick Romer, Deirdre Kelly
Genre Drama
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Turner Prize-nominee and Deutsche Börse Prize-winner, Richard Billingham returns to the subject of the striking photographs that he captured of his family during Thatcher era Britain in this drama recounting his childhood in a Birmingham council flat.
Screen International by Allan Hunter
It is a striking, sustained artistic achievement, but one as painful and distressing to watch as it must have been to live through.
Ray & Liz generates pathos through its detailed attention to its characters' attempts to find permanence and meaning in a fundamentally unstable reality.
Ray & Liz is formally arresting and rigorous, though not at the expense of its direct emotional force.
The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin
One senses that Billingham is not always at ease with the narrative demands of filmmaking. But his startling eye for the common made strange is very visible here, and hard not to hope that he’ll make further forays into filmmaking after this very auspicious debut with a work that feels so close and true to his earlier material.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
The whole film is like an incomplete fragment, intriguing if frustrating.
The Film Stage by Rory O'Connor
It’s an immersive poetic-realist dive into the artist’s fractured memories of his parents during the time he spent growing up in Birmingham in the ‘70s and ‘80s.
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