A Matter of Life and Death

guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk

Sep 25, 2008 20:00 EDT

The umpteenth rerelease of Powell and Pressburger's 1946 treasure still merits an umpteenth visit. This is a rich, strange, mercurial romance, winningly played by David Niven as a lovestruck pilot left out of heaven as the result of a bureaucratic bungle. Of all his films, Powell regarded this one as his personal favourite. It is surely his most confident and complete.

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