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Rating: 7 stars

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A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

Directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell

Fantasy | Drama

Most recently watched by archstanton43, mousterpiece

Overview

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

Rated PG | Length 104 minutes

Actors

David Niven | Kim Hunter | Roger Livesey | Marius Goring | Robert Coote | Kathleen Byron | Richard Attenborough | Bonar Colleano | Joan Maude | Robert Atkins | Edwin Max | Betty Potter | Abraham Sofaer | Raymond Massey | Robert Arden | Robert Beatty | Eric Cawthorne | Tommy Duggan | Leslie Dwyer | John Longden | Lois Maxwell | Wally Patch | Laurence Payne | Robert Rietti | Roger Snowdon | Emile Stemmler | Wendy Thompson | Frederick Valk | Joan Verney

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Picked up from the library this Michael Powell double dvd set featuring this and AGE OF CONSENT.

Man, just wasn’t into this. I get why it has a high rating but once I understood the conceit I didn’t care so much. I do give it credit for doing something so wild in the big studio system that I’m sure it had to be a weird film to view at the time. And the production value is excellent. This is one of those films I’d expect CFS to program (maybe they have?).

Maybe some day I’ll revisit under better conditions.

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