Terence Davies' ode to his native Liverpool - a rhapsodic reverie of innocence and experience, and a moving meditation on the passing of the years.

Of Time and The City is both a love song and a eulogy to the director's birthplace of Liverpool. It is also a response to memory, reflection and the experience of losing a sense of place as the skyline changes and time takes it toll.

Terence Davies is one of the most respected filmmakers in cinema today. His work has been honoured with a range of awards from around the world. Due to his refusal to compromise, Davies' output has been comparatively sporadic. His early short films, Children, Madonna and Child and Death and Transfiguration were screened together at film festivals throughout Europe and the U.S. as The Terence Davies Trilogy, winning numerous awards. To date he has released four feature films. The first two, Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, are very autobiographical films set in 40's and 50's Liverpool; his two most recent films, The Neon Bible and The House of Mirth, are adaptations of novels by John Kennedy Toole and Edith Wharton, respectively.

"Britain's greatest living film director" - The Evening Standard

"The one truly great movie to emerge so far (from Cannes) has been Terence Davies' Of Time and the City; it's not only this writer who considers it some kind of masterpiece... this film is as personal, as universal in its relevance, and as gloriously cinematic as anything he has done." - Time Out

"Of Time and the City' is a poetic masterpiece / magical from start to finish / audacious, original and exhilarating, O tempora, o mores... Oh, what a magnificently beautiful movie!" Time Out London

"moving, droll and charming" - Variety

"Both a celebration and a eulogy for an iconic city... This is film-making of the first order... It will make you howl with laughter then cry" - Times

"For my money, this is a British masterpiece, a brilliant assemblage of images that illuminate our past. Not only does it tug the heart-strings but it's also savagely funny." - The Guardian

"Poetically composed, with marvelous lumps of wit and perspective, Of Time and the City is a masterwork" - The Reporter