Ray & Liz (2018)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 108 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom
Directed by: Richard Billingham
Stars: Justin Salinger and Ella Smith
IMDb score:
6,7 (1.923)
Releasedate: 6 October 2018
Ray & Liz plot
Richard and his younger brother Jason grow up in an apartment. The relationship between their parents Ray and Liz has a major impact on the children's childhood as the Billingham family performs extreme rituals and ignores social taboos. Ray and Liz are basically living a life over which they have no control.
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Ray
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Older Ray
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Cinsault
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- 243 messages
- 516 votes
Social drama that could have been by Mike Leigh, if he hadn't just come out with the epic 'Peterloo', which I still have to see if I like. 'Ray & Liz' by debuting director Richard Billingham is a successful film in any case. With Ray & Liz, Billingham looks back on his youth with his troubled parents (Ray and Liz) in Birmingham in the 70s and 80s, where he grew up in miserable circumstances. Richard and his brother Jason had to fend for themselves from an early age and could not count on their alcoholic father and chain-smoking mother with a short fuse (and limited intelligence): they were only concerned with themselves. Billingham portrays all of this with precision and compassion, razor-sharp, with a special eye for detail. This sometimes produces particularly beautiful contrasts, which makes certain images and scenes more touching than usual. I can't put it better than The Philosopher above, and I'd like to quote his words again: Ray & Liz is a compelling and beautifully filmed portrait of a dysfunctional English lower-class family.
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mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
Ray [Patrick Romer] spends his days in a filthy apartment on a diet of beer (in plastic bottles) and cigarettes. He nostalgically thinks back to the old days with his wife Liz [Ella Smith], because back then life was... EVEN WORSE! The dog pees on yet another unpaid bill that ends up in the bottom of the kitchen drawer, the rabbit leaves his droppings on the couch, and it's a miracle the goldfish survives in his filthy fish bowl. In the opening scene, Liz slashes her retarded brother-in-law [Tony Way]'s head with the heel of her shoe for something he didn't do, and things aren't getting any better at Casa Ray & Liza.
Scriptwriter/director Richard Billingham immerses you for almost two hours in a never-ending stream of depressing moments in a story about characters you can't muster any sympathy for. This may be technically quite well made, but it is completely unclear what Billingham wants to convey with this. In any case, I can't imagine that people who really live in poverty will be pleased with this portrait of a life at the bottom of society. I would almost (!) say: long live The Tokkies!
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Ferdydurke
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- 1353 messages
- 854 votes
Hell, yes.
Finally an excuse to have a good snore.
A rare and accurate portrayal of a family at the bottom of Britain's harsh society in the 1980s, unsparing in its painful detail but moving in its compassion for the title characters, monuments to human powerlessness and failure.
The two episodes in their successive scenes are impressive in themselves, with the constant, meticulous attention to the interiors in which it all takes place, thus perfectly setting the mood (matter-of-fact and of a stifling oppression at the same time).
But it's the moments when Ray & Liz realize that powerlessness and failure themselves that lift this film far above something like documentary realism (which, as I see it, often creates a certain distance), and this story becomes a truly human drama.
It's the kind of film that could easily go wrong with a slightly different approach, but the way Billingham brings this personal, intimate story to light makes me go completely flat at the final scene (Ray in front of the mirror to the yearning sounds of Dusty Springfield). Far beyond sentiment and self-pity, heartbreakingly beautiful.
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