A 'Land Girl', an American GI, and a British soldier find themselves together in a small Kent town on the road to Canterbury. The location is a real village out of a picture postcard. Quickly browse titles in our catalog based on the ones you have picked. Sheila Sim is also remarkable, showing a feistiness that is quite common in young women in Powell and Pressburger films. The four main actors are all fantastic - an English sergeant who has been drafted into the army, who had been a cinema organist; a girl who has come to work on the land (in the Women's Land Army) while reliving a time spent in the same village with her boyfriend, now lost in action; a magistrate; and an American Army sergeant, played by the real-life Sergeant John Sweet, who is the most memorable of all, perhaps. In the end, each character becomes a pilgrim receiving a "blessing." Based on Sachin Kundalkar's novel. Thank you for including this gem among the rubbish of today. In 2001, Nick Burton and Eddie McMillan produced the following short documentary on John Sweet's first visit back to Canterbury since the making of A CANTERBURY TALE, in 1943. The voices initially seem indistinct and it takes a quarter of an hour to settle into a rhythm ... but once it does, what a marvellous experience it is: full of humanity, feeling for the English landscape, some quality of Englishness hard to define but unmistakable. In many ways it is quite similar to I Know Where I'm Going, where a young woman also in a situation of some emotional strain takes the bull by the horns and lands herself in a rural - but wilder - terrain, and some kind of spiritual renewal takes place almost imperceptibly. Select the department you want to search in. The cinematography is superb - framing, panning and close-ups. Available to download. I liked John Sweet as the American GI; the script allowed him to portray the Anglo-American culture-clash effectively. It is quite something to feel this mystery still intact, but see the evidence so tangibly in the lives of these characters you have grown to care about. One was that of political radicalism, from the left, which offered a fairer world in the future, once the was was over. The plot may sound absurd, hinging as it does on the unmasking of the enigmatic `Glueman', but it is the depth of the film that counts. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Excellent acting, direction and editing. A Canterbury Tale is a quiet, mystically tranquil symphony to the land, a rural accompaniment to the predominately urban film songs of Humphrey Jennings. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. The location is a real village out of a picture postcard. The crew chief in a NASCAR garage finds himself at odds with the tech-reliant millennials brought in to modernize the team. When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the... An experimental short film by Hollis Frampton of contrasting colours.

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