RAY & LIZ
Jul 03, 2019
1 minute
—José Teodoro
Director: Richard Billingham
Country/Distributor: UK, KimStim
Opening: July 10
A memoir in reen-actments, Richard Billingham’s long-gestating feature debut unfolds in the Black. Named after his parents, slides between Billingham’s childhood and adolescence—where the narrative focus comes to settle on his little brother Jason, a cherubic wanderer subsisting exclusively on boxed bread—and the present day, which finds the elderly Ray an alcoholic shut-in paid occasional visits by Liz, still cantankerous, obese, and cowed by the persistent elusiveness of money.
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