I Know Where I'm Going!
1947 Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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Joan Webster is an ambitious and stubborn middle-class English woman determined to move forward since her childhood. She meets her father in a fancy restaurant to tell him that she will marry the wealthy middle-aged industrial Robert Bellinger in Kiloran island, in Hebricles, Scotland. She travels from Manchester to the island of Mull, where she stays trapped due to the windy weather. While in the island, she meets Torquil McNeil and along the days they fall in love for each other.
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Part of The Archers Season - 1942 to 1957
I can see a lot of my 9 month old daughter in Wendy Hiller's Joan Webster. The same bloody-mindedness and complete surety in what she's doing, where she's going and a total refusal to accept that something can't be done.
It might sound strange to say that of a baby, but only a few minutes into the latest Powell and Pressburger foray I could just see her acting like this in 30 years time. Hopefully she will be a bit more considerate of other people's lives in a howling gale, though, if she needs help getting across to an island to be united with a loved one.
Powell and Pressburger's quietening…
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Part of Dastardly Difficult December: film nr.48
Who needs drugs to make you feel good when films like this exist?
I really don't like romantic comedies in general, but this film was made before the genre existed. Heck, it probably drew up the blueprint for the genre. It is very predictable, but is has two things that make it so very special.
Powell and Pressburger.
They add beauty to the world we're watching, energy to the words we're hearing and warmth to the emotions we're feeling. This simple tale about love found in an unexpected tale is told so well, it is nigh impossible to not be drawn into this comfortable, warm bath of black and white cinematic endorphins.
The…
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I know what you're thinking. "I've already seen Doc Hollywood." Okay, so I Know Where I'm Going tells a story whose end you can predict a mile off. It wears its money-isn't-everything theme on its sleeve, and the whole concept of getting in touch with your cultural heritage is not nearly so subtle as presented in the sublime A Canterbury Tale. But when those themes are done with the Archers' skill and that story told with such pleasure, you don't half mind.
Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) is a spoiled banker's daughter who has charm, looks, and a firm idea about where she wants to end up in life. The first kink in her armor comes when she tells her father…
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Not much new since my last viewing, except to say that I love it more this time. Since I first saw this one, I have come to really appreciate Wendy Hiller (this film was the first time I had seen her, except for Murder on the Orient Express). She's fantastic. More than fantastic.
A simple, beautiful film.
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Love is mysterious. The beautiful black and white photography enhances the old world charm. Economies clash, strong wills subside, Roger Livesey's voice conquers all.
PS: Dogs!
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My favorite Archers, not likely to be unseated by the few I've yet to see.
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Love is mysterious. The beautiful black and white photography enhances the old world charm. Economies clash, strong wills subside, Roger Livesey's voice conquers all.
PS: Dogs!
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Filled with the kind of wit and detail that only the Archers could provide, I Know Where I'm Going deserves to be counted among Powell and Pressburger's greatest accomplishments.
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A mesmerizing and enchanting romantic film about an engaged woman who is forced to stay at a small Scottish town due to bad weather as she finds herself attracted to a Naval officer.
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For the first time in my viewing, the Archers feel resolutely conventional, albeit in a quirky and charming way. Snippets of contemporary romantic comedies like Leap Year kept leaking into my subconscious, as the tough-minded girl learns to find charm in the different rhythms of the people around her; if anything feels unique, it's choosing never to make Joan's wealthy fiance an obvious antagonist. Perfectly pleasant in its execution, yet with the exception of an odd approach to prayer and superstition, nothing leapt out and grabbed me the way all the other Archers features had in some way or another. It was...nice.
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Tajās pāris Powell & Pressburger filmās, ko esmu redzējusi, aktierspēle teatrāla un novecojusi mazliet šķiet. Bet tas tikai, kad skaties filmu, pēcāk filma vēl ilgi nelaiž vaļā.
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Roger Livesey: one of the greatest British actors. It's only a shame he wasn't in more of the Archers' movies. This is another classic, sweet and lovely and introspective.
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This turned out to be much better than I had expected. Less manipulative. I was expecting a soap-opera. You know, “gold-digger” off to marry her wealthy, old as her daddy beau, but falls in true love with a handsome rogue, blah blah blah. It doesn’t really pack that much of a meaningful wallop, but it’s somehow moving anyway. The acting is charming and the Scotland scenery is coldly gorgeous. So it’s both warm and cold, which is a strange way to describe a film, I suppose. Quirky.
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My favorite Archers, not likely to be unseated by the few I've yet to see.
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I have seen a lot of Powell & Pressburger's films, which stand the test of time in spite of looking a bit old fashioned. This is a romance like A Matter of Life and Death, but a bit more conventional. Still very enjoyable, although as Roger Livesey was playing a Scottish laird, he was noticeably lacking a Scottish accent. Still, a contrived accent would have sounded worse! He is a good actor - particularly good in another Powell & Pressburger film, the Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Wendy Hiller was also good a the strong minded girl convinced she would be happy by planning her life in detail.