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Ray & Liz

6.6(65)20181h 47m2

On the outskirts of Birmingham and the margins of society the Billingham family perform extreme rituals and break social taboos as they muddle through a life decided by factors beyond their control. At times shocking and laced with an unsettling humor, three episodes unfold as a powerful evocation of the experience of growing up in a Black Country council flat.

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Status
Released
Budget
$601.2K
Box office
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Language
English
  • tape recorder
  • working class
  • alcoholic
  • neglected child
  • council estate
  • 1980s
  • birmingham
  • budgerigar

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Produced in

Germany, United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical158 Mar 2019
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical10 Apr 2019
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical129 May 2019
  • Hong KongHK

    • Theatrical電影節19 Mar 2019
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Theatrical1228 Feb 2019
  • South KoreaKR

    • PremiereJeonju International Film Festival4 May 2019
  • SwitzerlandCH

    • Premiere18Locarno International Film Festival5 Aug 2018
  • TürkiyeTR

    • Theatrical (limited)Filmekimi6 Oct 2018
  • UkraineUA

    • PremiereOdesa International Film Festival18 Jul 2019

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Ray & Liz was released on 6 October 2018.

Audience reviews

2
  • S

    SWITCH.

    8/15/2019

    7/10

    It may be dour, but the film is also vital, edgy and progressive. It also must be noted that it’s very funny at times, in a brutal human comedy sort of way ('Good Thing' by Fine Young Cannibals plays over the end credits). To be put off by the uncomfortable themes, unglamorous urban location and prevailing sense of gloom that permeates ‘Ray & Liz’ would be a big mistake. This drama crackles with angry energy, and ref…

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    CinemaSerf

    1/30/2026

    6/10

    I think part of my problem with this is that having grown up in a room and kitchen in a 1970s Glasgow tenement where we bathed in the sink, once a week, in water freshly boiled from the kettle atop the metred gas stove, I find these “northern” (English) tales of woe and misfortune all a bit melodramatic. Compared to previous generations, these Brummies don’t know they are born as they live in housing estates resource…

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