I really wanted to love this one but after the initial novelty of watching archival footage played over someone (Davies?) reading various poems from different ages wore out my mind gradually went mego.
I thought Distant Voices, Still Lives was extraordinary in its capture of lower class English postwar life. Insightful, lyrical and moving. Plus beautiful to look at. To my eye he's never equaled work that since. Too bad. On the other hand, producing one masterwork justifies a career.
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