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Ray & Liz
Turner Prize nominee Richard Billingham has frequently meditated on family history in his photographs and videos including the 1996 book Ray's A Laugh, which documented the relationship between his alcoholic father Ray and tattooed, chain-smoking mother Liz. These memories inform his award-winning feature film directorial debut about growing up in a Black Country council flat. Distilled into three chapters, grim vignettes reveal the tensions between Ray (Justin Salinger), Liz (Ella Smith), Richard and his younger brother Jason, which are heightened by the family's lodger Will (Sam Gittins), who badly mistreats Ray's brother (Tony Way). As Richard and Jason become teenagers, their paths diverge and social services intervene.
