A Matter of Life and Death review " movie classic resuscitated with songs
New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme Ambitious adaptation of Powell and Pressburger's romantic fantasy is intelligently rendered, with well-chosen music added to the period mix The propaganda brief for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger on A Matter of Life and Death was to come up with a film to help smooth postwar relations between Britain and the US. We could certainly do with a bit of that now, although to fix our cur…