1989 LAFCA Award – Best Foreign Film Winner
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Terence Davies
The lives of an English working-class family are told out of order in a free-associative manner. The first part, “Distant Voices”, focuses on the father’s role in the family. The second part, “Still Lives”, focuses on his children.
Story of Women
Claude Chabrol
Marie Latour, a woman of limited schooling, raises two children in a ratty flat during World War II in occupied France. In 1941, her husband Paul returns from German captivity, too weak to …