The Time of Our Lives

The Time of Our Lives

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 21, 1994

Runtime

0h 50m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

The Time of Our Lives

Production Companies

COI, BFI, La Sept Cinéma, Middlemarch Films

Director

Michael Grigsby

Description

A large family in London's East End is celebrating a birthday party. Children and grandchildren from this extensive family have come to the party from all over England. At the party the family members talk about hope and dreams for their children. The past and present lives of various relatives are compared with each other, while fragments from radio-programmes from the fourties and the fifties draw an emotional and historical line. Set against this archive material are fierce images of modern day family life in urban England in the year 1993. This makes the film a collage of dreams, memories and images of present-day life.