A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death

Neither Heaven nor Earth could keep them apart!

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Release Date

12/15/1946

Runtime

104 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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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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