This movie is an earlier Archers work made in 1944 and set during the war, and is not a "war movie" so much as a "movie that deals with war", though to say it deals with only that is also a bit off. It's the story of three people who make a pilgrimmage (intentional or not) to Canterbury a la Chaucer's epic, stopping accidentally at a small town where they solve a sort of Scooby Doo-ish crime, and then following up with a spiritual change once they arrive.
It's definitely earlier Powell and Pressburger, but it does show the direction they're heading in terms of cinematography, directing, and motion picture art. It had some very strong moments, though I can't help but think it was a bit uneven... However scenes like the woman walking along the bombed street looking past the damage at the Cathedral were quite impactful.
I don't know if I really liked it very much. I don't really understand why we got the characters we did. Two of them are soldiers, they're all in their own way integrated into the war, they definitely have different personalities and backgrounds, but I don't know why they were ultimately drawn together.
Possibly such answers are engaged more subtly, and I missed them.
It's definitely earlier Powell and Pressburger, but it does show the direction they're heading in terms of cinematography, directing, and motion picture art. It had some very strong moments, though I can't help but think it was a bit uneven... However scenes like the woman walking along the bombed street looking past the damage at the Cathedral were quite impactful.
I don't know if I really liked it very much. I don't really understand why we got the characters we did. Two of them are soldiers, they're all in their own way integrated into the war, they definitely have different personalities and backgrounds, but I don't know why they were ultimately drawn together.
Possibly such answers are engaged more subtly, and I missed them.