Ray & Liz

Synopsis

An impressionistic, black-and-white portrait of a dysfunctional working-class family, told through the memories of the filmmaker Richard Billingham. The film paints a vivid and haunting picture of a childhood spent in a cramped, disheveled flat in a Birmingham high-rise, where his parents, Ray and Liz, navigated a life of heavy drinking and unemployment. This is a powerful and unsettling film that explores the fragility of family and the indelible marks left by memory.