Ray & Liz (15)

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Ray & Liz (15)

Mon 1 Jan 0001 - Mon 6 May 2019, Screen Two

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undefined A Film Hub South East presentation from the
Independent Cinema Office

Growing audiences for cultural cinema

All Tickets £6

CERTIFICATE 15: PHOTO ID MAY BE REQUIRED TO GAIN ENTRY TO THE SCREENING

Director: Richard Bellingham

Starring: Richard Ashton, Michelle Bonnard, Sam Dodd, James Eeles

Celebrated photographer Richard Billingham marks his feature debut with this raw, tender and uniquely moving cine memoir.

Inspired largely by Billingham's troubled childhood in Thatcher-era Birmingham, it's a singular take on the British kitchen sink drama, delineated via a series of vignettes in which his alcoholic father Ray, mother Liz and brother Jason demonstrate how a life lived on society's margins can spiral out of control.

Powerfully evocative and finely composed - in grainy 16mm frames rich with colour, texture and meaning - Ray & Liz prompts you to look and look again, and will reward both fans of Billingham's work and newcomers to it.

Watch the official trailer below

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An enriching autobiographical study of a family torn apart by poverty, neglect and depression in a West Midlands council flat.

BFIReview User
unexpectedly moving and graceful

The IndependentReview User
a brutal study of a family coming to pieces... captures the claustrophobic loneliness of a couple cut off from everyone, including each other

The GuardianReview User
Ray & Liz is stark, raw and memorable – working class life as told from the inside. Powerful, singular and representing a strand of British cinema that will never make the podium at the Kodak theatre come Oscar night.

EmpireReview User
a textured, tough, but very human portrait of impoverished lives that also displays a level of 80s ephemera that puts 'Stranger Things' to shame

EmpireReview User
a searing portrait of a family that has come apart at the seams... a filmmaker to watch.

EmpireReview User
A quietly enraged, ultimately compassionate portrait of people who have nothing.

Time OutReview User
The film is extraordinary and unflinching. And remarkably, it's made with as much love as anger.

The ObserverReview User
An almost oppressively tactile evocation of growing up in the Black Country during the Thatcher years. It's in a very raw form that feels experiential... it really feels like it puts you in the environment of the film... You can feel it, you can inhale it.

Mark KermodeReview User
The film walks a tightrope between things being funny and heart breaking, recognisable and horrifying. Humour and harshness is very much intertwined.

Mark KermodeReview User