It is directed by Terence Davies, whose previous films include The House of Mirth and Distant Voices, Still Lives.

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In this exquisite, impressionistic, quasi-autobiographical reverie, from 1993, the British director Terence Davies celebrates, with meticulous grace, a Liverpool boyhood in 1955-56.

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In an empty theatre, a curtain rises on an unusual kind of show: archival footage of life in the streets of Liverpool, where the director, Terence Davies (who was born in 1945), grew up, and which he both celebrates and mourns in this personal, essaylike documentary of urban reminiscences.

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Davies adapted "The Deep Blue Sea" from the 1952 play of the same name by Terence Rattigan as part of the centenary celebration of the late British playwright.

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