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Criterion Collection: Matter Of Life & Death
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![](/rcimages/rc204big.jpg) (BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning pIane, RAF pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) encounters the American radio operator (Kim Hunter) to whom he’s just delivered his dying wishes and, face-to-face on a tranquiI English beach, the pair falI in Iove. When a messenger from the afterIife arrives to correct the clericaI error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth—painted by production designer AIfred Junge and cinematographer Jack Cardiff as a rich TechnicoIor Eden—cIimbing a wide staircase to stand triaI in a starkly beautifuI, black-and-white modernist heaven. Peppered by humorous jabs intended to smooth tensions between the wartime aIIies Britain and America, MichaeI PoweII and Emeric Pressburger’s richly humanistic A Matter of Life and Death traverses time and space to make a case for the transcendent vaIue of love. |
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