Film · 1946 · Romantic fantasy
A Matter of Life and Death
Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1946
United Kingdom
★ 7.0 editorial score
Heaven is monochrome and earth is in Technicolor, which is the whole joke: a pilot bails out without a parachute and then has to argue for his life.
“"This is the universe," a voice says at the beginning of "Stairway to Heaven." "Big, isn't it?" The camera pans across the skies — but the story, as it develops, is both awesome and intimate, suggesting that a single tear shed for love might stop heaven in its tracks.”
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