Tom Beasley chats to actress Ella Smith about portraying a larger than life matriarch in Richard Billingham’s autobiographical British drama Ray & Liz… This week, the working class West Midlands of Thatcher’s Britain comes to the big screen in Ray & Liz. Writer-director Richard Billingham adapts stories from his own poverty-stricken childhood in his first […]
Movie Review – Ray & Liz (2018)
Ray & Liz, 2018. Written and directed by Richard Billingham. Starring Ella Smith, Justin Sallinger, Patrick Romer, Tony Way, Sam Gittins, Joshua Millard-Lloyd and Deirdre Kelly. SYNOPSIS: A poverty-stricken family living in the Black Country during the 1980s struggles with the constant spectre of financial peril. From the very first shots of photographer turned filmmaker […]