Of Time And The City

Filmmaker Terence Davies presents a poetic documentary essay revisiting the Liverpool of his birth, constructed from haunting archival footage, musical excerpts and meditative autobiographical recollections. Davies’s youthful intimations of gay sexuality, atheism and his obsession with movies are among the striking personal evocations in this singular memory piece, described by the New York Times as “a work of social and literary criticism that never lectures or hectors, but rather, with melancholy, tenderness and wit, manages to sing.”