Title: Went the Day Well?
Genre:
Drama
Cast: Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton
Release Date:
2010-07-09
Production Country: United Kingdom
Directed By: Alberto Cavalcanti
Film Duration: 93 min.
Production Year: 1942
Distributor: BFI Distribution
Official Website:
www.bfi.org.uk/releases
Regional Website:
www.bfi.org.uk/releases
Synopsis:
Cavalcanti’s wartime film, based on a story by Graham Greene, still unsettles, even shocks, with its subversive, almost surreal spectacle of a cosy English village under Nazi attack in the Second World War.
Disguised as British soldiers, the invading Germans insinuate themselves into a pretty village inhabited by British character players so familiar to wartime audiences that they must have seemed like family members. Always the mischievous foreign observer, Cavalcanti kicks away their usual charm, letting them kill and be killed in a violent battle for their green, pleasant land. Critics’ reactions at the time were mixed; but now we can properly relish this visionary film, as jolting and quizzical about British life as anything by Powell and Pressburger.
- Geoff Brown
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