A Matter of Life and Death

Set in a gorgeously photographed Technicolor England and a monochrome heaven, A Matter of Life and Death took the imaginative daring of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger to new heights. Commissioned to smooth tensions between the wartime allies Britain and America, the richly humanistic film traverses time and space to make a case for the transcendent value of love.

After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) encounters the American radio operator June (Kim Hunter), and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the hereafter arrives to correct the error that spared Peter's life, Peter must mount a fierce defense of his life in front of a celestial court.

Review: "The special effects in [A Matter of Life and Death] show a universe that never existed until this movie was made, and the vision is breathtaking in its originality." – Roger Ebert

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