A Matter of Life and Death at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, on 24 June. An airman survives a plane crash and falls in love, only to be brought to the afterlife and told he should have died. But he will fight this fate.
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
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