A Matter of Life and Death (4k Restoration) | Cinematic Breakfast
Date: 9 December 2023
Venue: Nerve Centre, 7-8 Magazine Street, Derry~Londonderry, County Londonderry, BT48 6HJ
Set in a gorgeously photographed Technicolor England and a monochrome heaven, A Matter of Life and Death took the imaginative daring of jointly credited writer-producer-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger to new heights.
Set in a gorgeously photographed Technicolor England and a monochrome heaven, A Matter of Life and Death took the imaginative daring of jointly credited writer-producer-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger to new heights.
David Niven (The Pink Panther, Casino Royale) plays a British airman who survives a plane crash and falls in love with an American radio operator (Kim Hunter — A Streetcar Named Desire, Planet of the Apes), only to be summoned to the afterlife by a heavenly 'Conductor' (Marius Goring — The Red Shoes, Ill Met by Moonlight). But is heaven just a hallucination brought on by brain injury?