A Matter of Life and Death: Powell / Pressburger Film Season

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 plays a British airman who survives a plane crash and falls in love with an American radio operator (Kim Hunter), only to be summoned to the afterlife by a heavenly ‘Conductor’ (Marius Goring). But is heaven just a hallucination brought on by brain injury?

“The utterly unique, enduringly rich and strange romantic fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.” The Guardian