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  • 2019
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2019
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 48 m

Summary On the outskirts of Birmingham and the margins of society the Billingham family perform extreme rituals and break social taboos as they muddle through a life decided by factors beyond their control. At times shocking and laced with an unsettling humour, three episodes unfold as a powerful evocation of the experience of growing up in a Bl...

Directed By: Richard Billingham

Written By: Richard Billingham

  • 2019
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2019
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 48 m

Ray & Liz

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
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Summary On the outskirts of Birmingham and the margins of society the Billingham family perform extreme rituals and break social taboos as they muddle through a life decided by factors beyond their control. At times shocking and laced with an unsettling humour, three episodes unfold as a powerful evocation of the experience of growing up in a Bl...

Directed By: Richard Billingham

Written By: Richard Billingham

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 16 Critic Reviews
81
94% Positive
15 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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94% Positive
15 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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100
Mar 7, 2019
A symphony of cinema, Ray & Liz possesses an undeniable level of artistic expression on memory. Capturing space and time in a manner that only film can create in every single image there is a deep-rooted emotive quality.
By Alasdair Bayman FULL REVIEW
90
Jul 23, 2019
What Ray & Liz offers is the opposite of exploitive or vengeful enumeration of parental failure. Billingham finds grace for his ruined family, even if he refuses to save them, and it feels like an act of forgiveness.
By Dave White FULL REVIEW
88
Aug 31, 2018
Ray & Liz generates pathos through its detailed attention to its characters' attempts to find permanence and meaning in a fundamentally unstable reality.
By Carson Lund FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 13, 2019
Artist-turned-filmmaker Richard Billingham soaks his terrific debut in bleak authenticity and some gorgeous cinematography.
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80
Sep 2, 2018
One senses that Billingham is not always at ease with the narrative demands of filmmaking. But his startling eye for the common made strange is very visible here, and hard not to hope that he’ll make further forays into filmmaking after this very auspicious debut with a work that feels so close and true to his earlier material.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 9, 2019
Performed with absolute commitment by its cast (Justin Salinger and Ella Smith play the younger versions of the title characters), Ray & Liz is a quietly harrowing movie. Billingham risks tedium, though, in withholding anything like an inner life for any of its characters until the movie’s very end.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 18, 2018
The whole film is like an incomplete fragment, intriguing if frustrating.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
6.4
44% Positive
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44% Mixed
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11% Negative
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11% Negative
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Production Company Jacqui Davies, Severn Screen
Release Date Jul 10, 2019
Duration 1 h 48 m
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Website http://www.jacquidavies.com/past-projects-cb3i
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Awards

Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
Brussels International Film Festival (BRIFF)
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
British Independent Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

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