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Ray & Liz

  • 2018
  • 1h 48m
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6.7/10
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Ella Smith in Ray & Liz (2018)
Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz.
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Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz... Read allPhotographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz.Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz.

  • Director
    • Richard Billingham
  • Writer
    • Richard Billingham
  • Stars
    • Patrick Romer
    • Richard Ashton
    • Justin Salinger
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.7/10
    1.9K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Richard Billingham
    • Writer
      • Richard Billingham
    • Stars
      • Patrick Romer
      • Richard Ashton
      • Justin Salinger
    • 19User reviews
    • 70Critic reviews
    • 81Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 18 wins & 25 nominations total

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    Patrick Romer
    • Older Ray
    Richard Ashton
    Richard Ashton
    • Sid
    Justin Salinger
    Justin Salinger
    • Ray
    Callum Slater
    • Jason (Aged 2)
    Ella Smith
    Ella Smith
    • Liz
    Tony Way
    Tony Way
    • Lol
    Jacob Tuton
    • Richard (Aged 10)
    Mary Helen Donald
    • Hilda
    Ramona Billingham
    • Child in Street
    Walter Billingham
    • Child in Street
    Sam Gittins
    Sam Gittins
    • Will
    Joshua Millard-Lloyd
    • Jason (Aged 9)
    Sam Plant
    • Richard (Aged 16)
    Roscoe Cox
    • Tony
    Louis Phillips
    • Schoolboy
    Sam Durnall
    • Schoolboy
    Lynn Rhodes
    • Cable Car Attendant
    Richard Brown
    • Zoo Keeper
    • Director
      • Richard Billingham
    • Writer
      • Richard Billingham
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    10/10

    One of the best British films in years.

    Richard Billingham's "Ray & Liz" is worthy to take its place next to the early films of both Terence Davies and Bill Douglas and like their films is largely autobiographical. It is a picture of Billingham's abusive, alcoholic family, his parents, Ray and Liz, and his extended family and naturally it's depressing but also not without a grim humour and as befits someone who has made his name as a photographer is full of images that might best be described as depressingly beautiful.

    There is an old saying, write about what you know and in terms of world cinema it's those films that home in to a specific aspect of their country's national identity that work best. Britain has always been a class-conscious nation and that's probably why those films that dealt honesty with working class life and made in the early sixties, (the Kitchen Sink movies), that have remained freshest in the memory. It was something that Davies and Douglas knew only too well and which Billingham has now adopted.

    This is a film in which every tiny detail is perfectly realised; the cheap artificial flowers, ornaments and paintings that Liz uses to brighten a home where the wallpaper is peeling off the walls and dogs pee on newspapers on the floor. Forget about something like "The Favourite", this is the best designed film of the year. It's also superbly played by its totally unknown cast. Ella Smith is particularly good as the neglectful Liz, someone perhaps more deserving of our pity than our scorn. Ray and Liz may be products of their society but Billingham, unlike Ken Loach, isn't really too concerned with the wider social picture but with the personal. This is his home movie and it's a deeply felt one.
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    • Release date
      • July 10, 2019 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • Producer 's Website
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Ray y Liz
    • Filming locations
      • Cradley Heath, West Midlands, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Jacqui Davies
      • Severn Screen
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      • £700,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $59,919
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 48 minutes
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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