
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Shadows on the WallRich ClineThe characters are so colourful that this feels like a TV sitcom played with Loach-style kitchen sink realism. |
| Film ExperienceMurtada ElfadlBillingham's Ray & Liz story is precise and rooted in the stark bleak facts of his growing up with alcoholic uncaring parents. He presents those years in a few set pieces written and directed as if a crime were being committed. |
| Cinema ScopeMark Peranson[Director Richard] Billingham in essence is giving his photographs their backstory, bringing them to life with an oftentimes dark, unsettling, and unblinking humour. |
| Slant MagazineCarson LundRay & Liz generates pathos through its detailed attention to its characters' attempts to find permanence and meaning in a fundamentally unstable reality. |
| Sight and SoundJames LattimerBy turns brutal, tender and bleakly funny, this is an off-kilter, obliquely topical portrait of how grinding poverty begets dysfunction. |
| Backseat MafiaRob AldamBillingham allows us a glimpse into his childhood through a series of intimate vignettes and snippets. |
| Culture WhisperElla KempBillingham uses his talent for still photography as much as his own memories to craft a portrait of poverty without pity, through love laced with dysfunction. |
| Seventh RowElena LazicBillingham's compositions are gorgeous -- some of them are close recreations of his published photographs. Yet there is more than superficial beauty at play. |
| Film ThreatLorry KiktaThe film is not the feel-good movie of the year by any stretch of the imagination, but it is a perfect fictionalized portrait of Billingham's family, for better or worse. |
| CulturessKristen LopezThe photographer turned director crafts a searing narrative about families and the lack of compassion that derives from tough circumstances |