Ray & Liz

Ray & Liz
Image of film poster
Directed by Richard Billingham
Produced by Jacqui Davies
Screenplay by Richard Billingham
Starring
Cinematography Daniel Landin
Edited by Tracy Granger
Running time
 108 minutes
Country UK
Language English

Ray & Liz is a forthcoming British film written and directed by Richard Billingham, his debut.[1][2] It is produced by Jacqui Davies. The film retells Billingham's troubled childhood growing up in a Black Country council flat during the Thatcher era.[3] It focuses "on his parents Ray and Liz, their relationship, and its impact on Richard and his younger brother Jason."[4]

The film premiered at Locarno Festival in August 2018,[5] where it won Billingham a Special Mention.

Billingham, a photographer, previously published the book Ray's a Laugh (1996), with photographs of his family at the time depicted in the film.

Origins

The film has an origin in Ray, a single-screen video artwork that premiered at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Wales in 2015.[5] Prior to that its origins lie in Billingham's mid-1990s snapshots of his alcoholic father Ray, chain-smoking mother Liz and younger brother Jason, collected in the book Ray's a Laugh (1996) and included in the art exhibition Sensation that premiered in 1997.[2][6]

Selected cast

Accolades

See also

References

  1. ↑ Adams, Tim (13 March 2016). "Mr and Mrs Billingham and Frosty Jack's". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
  2. 1 2 "'Ray & Liz': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
  3. ↑ "Locarno first look: Ray & Liz reveals a troubled family scrap by scrap". British Film Institute. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
  4. ↑ Film, British Council. "British Council Film: Ray and Liz". film.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
  5. 1 2 "First trailer for Richard Billingham's 'Ray & Liz' (exclusive)". Screen International. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
  6. ↑ Lodge, Guy (7 August 2018). "Locarno Film Review: 'Ray & Liz'". Variety. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
  7. ↑ "Locarno Film Festival 2018: Ray & Liz, M, & Menocchio". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
  8. ↑ "Locarno's top prize goes to Singapore's 'A Land Imagined'". Screen International. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
  9. ↑ Lodge, Guy (13 August 2018). "'A Land Imagined,' 'BlacKkKlansman,' Women Directors Win at Locarno Fest". Variety. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
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