New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme Ambitious adaptation of Powell and Pressburger's romantic fantasy is intelligently rendered, with well-chosen music added to the period mix The propaganda brief for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger on A Matter of Life and Death was to come up with a film to help smooth postwar relations between Britain and the US. We could certainly do with a bit of that now, although to fix our cur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM on April 4, 2025