Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s heady romantic masterpiece returns to cinemas, now newly restored to 4K.
Headstrong Joan Webster (the wondrous Wendy Hiller) sets off, wedding dress in tow, to marry a rich older man on his remote Hebridean island. Stranded on Mull thanks to the weather, Joan finds herself struggling to cope with the unplanned turn of events. Powell and Pressburger weave their course of true love through flashes of surrealism, a life-threatening whirlpool and an ancient curse, disarming and enchanting in equal measure.
Credits
UK 1945
93 mins
Cert TBC
Dir Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
With Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown
Venues
October
From 19 October
BFI Southbank
From 20 October
Broadway Nottingham
Glasgow Film Theatre
HOME, Manchester
Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast
28 October
Ciné Lumière, London
New Park Chichester
29 October
Folkestone Silver Screen
November
5 November
King Street Cinema, Ipswich
11 November
Gloucester Guildhall
15 November
Storyhouse, Chester
19 November
Electric Picture House Wotton
25 November
MAC, Birmingham
29 November
Cottage Road Cinema, Leeds
30 November
Exeter Phoenix
December
3 December
Phoenix Cinema East Finchley
More venues to follow.
