Submitted by mike flint on 2 September 2008 - 11:38pm.
This is the perfect Saturday afternoon film with some biscuits and a gallon of tea.
The film is just so rich with great scenes. Heaven in Black and White, the camera obscura sequence, the closing of the eye, the stairway to heaven. The small jokes (technicolour, music, banality of cricket), the lack of "enemies" in heaven, everyone is allied - all fantastic.
Roger Livesy is simply brilliant, as is David Niven.
The haunting piano melody all the way through is so simple and so effective.
The fact that it's a cheesy love story and so much better than anything Richard Curtis could write.
I have seen this film so many times it's almost obscene but it is warming and comforting and I'm quite happy to go back and see it again and again.
When it had a re-release in 2000, I saw it at the cinema three times just to see it how the film was intended to be seen big,bold and beautiful.
If everyone watched this film the world would be a better place.
Matter of Life And Death
This is the perfect Saturday afternoon film with some biscuits and a gallon of tea.
The film is just so rich with great scenes. Heaven in Black and White, the camera obscura sequence, the closing of the eye, the stairway to heaven. The small jokes (technicolour, music, banality of cricket), the lack of "enemies" in heaven, everyone is allied - all fantastic.
Roger Livesy is simply brilliant, as is David Niven.
The haunting piano melody all the way through is so simple and so effective.
The fact that it's a cheesy love story and so much better than anything Richard Curtis could write.
I have seen this film so many times it's almost obscene but it is warming and comforting and I'm quite happy to go back and see it again and again.
When it had a re-release in 2000, I saw it at the cinema three times just to see it how the film was intended to be seen big,bold and beautiful.
If everyone watched this film the world would be a better place.