
A Matter of Life and Death
Neither Heaven nor Earth could keep them apart!
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Release Date
12/15/1946Runtime
104 minsOverview
When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.
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A visually sumptuous romantic fantasy that treats the prospect of death as a bureaucratic inconvenience, warm, witty, and deeply moving, it argues that love itself is the only court that matters.
Mood
RomanticWhimsicalBittersweetDefiant
Themes
LoveMortalityIdentity
Tone
Tender
Pacing
Steady
Look
PainterlyFormalistHigh-contrast
Structure
Framed flashback
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