A Canterbury Tale
‘It is eccentric, and very English, but in a nuanced, non-banner-waving way’
IF the golden age of Hollywood was the 1930s, the British equivalent was the 1940s, when several domestic filmmakers held their own on the international scene, as well as developing distinctive styles of their own. Not least among these was the flamboyant partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger who, in 1942, set up the (1941) and (1942). Each film branded by the instantly memorable trademark of an arrow thwacking into its target, they embarked upon a creative journey that, across 14 years, would deliver the most characterful, romantic and eminently cinematic body of work to ever emerge from this country.
