Michael Powell
3 titles · british classical
Powell and Emeric Pressburger, as the Archers, made Technicolor fantasies in wartime Britain. In A Matter of Life and Death, a pilot who should have died argues for his life before a celestial court. The Red Shoes has a young ballerina torn between dance and love. Powell's solo Peeping Tom, about a focus puller who films women as he kills them, was so despised on release that it all but ended his career in Britain.
Signature
- Saturated Technicolor and painted sets.
- Art and obsession (The Red Shoes, Peeping Tom).
- Fantasy used to talk about war.
- Co-directed with Emeric Pressburger.
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