A Matter Of Life And Death
104 minutes,
UK (1946), U
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(4.9 / 199 votes)
(4.9 / 199 votes)
Originally commissioned by the wartime Ministry of Information to bolster relations between Britain and the US, Powell's compassionate and technically superb film about a pilot who cheats death has come to be regarded as a masterpiece in its own right
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A Matter Of Life And Death : One of Powell's and Pressburger's most elegant achievements, and Powell's own favourite from his time at the production company Archer's, this is part romance, part surrealist courtroom drama.
Niven is Peter Carter, an RAF pilot (and poet) who bails out of his plane over the Channel...
Read the A Matter Of Life And Death full reviewNiven is Peter Carter, an RAF pilot (and poet) who bails out of his plane over the Channel...
