THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP

A complex and unmissable film about war, love, aging and obsolescence, shot in gorgeous Technicolor by filmic geniuses Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger while WWII still raged all around them in Britain. Veteran leader General Candy (Roger Livesey, A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH) oversees a WWII squad but doesn’t have the respect of his men and is considered out-of-touch with what’s needed to win the war. But it wasn’t always this way. Flashing back to his early career in WWI and the Boer War, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.