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Cambridge Film Festival · 2023

Cambridge Film Festival 2023

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4 films · 3 reviews

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'I Know Where I'm Going!'

A woman who is planning to better herself by marrying money, finds love unexpectedly after being stranded on a Scottish island.

(Country: UK; Year: 1945; Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger; Writer: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger; Stars: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie, George Carney, Nancy Price, Catherine Lacey, Jean Cadell, John Laurie, Valentine Dyall, Norman Shelley)

Orlando

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A film which flatters to deceive, teasing the viewer with a fluttering of aesthetically-pleasing eyelids before dashing off in pursuit of another suitor.

Robert Munro · 2.5 out of 5
Young nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever young. Miraculously, he does just that...

(Country: UK, Russia, France, Italy, Netherlands; Year: 1992; Director: Sally Potter; Writer: Sally Potter, Virginia Woolf; Stars: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane and Quentin Crisp.)

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The Red Shoes

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The dance sequences are brilliantly performed and well worth watching the film for in their own right.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
A dancer is torn between the man she loves and her obsessive commitment to her craft.

(Country: UK; Year: 1948; Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger; Writer: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger and Keith Winter, based on the book by Hans Christian Andersen.; Stars: Marius Goring, Jean Short, Gordon Littmann, Julia Lang, Bill Shine, Léonide Massine, Anton Walbrook, Austin Trevor, Esmond Knight, Eric Berry, Irene Browne)

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The Tales Of Hoffmann

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The passage of time - and a beautiful 4k restoration - have been kind to this reimagining of Jacques Offenbach's opera, with its deliberately operatic gestures and colours and stylised production design feeling sharply avant garde even today.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A poet recalls three doomed romances.

(Country: UK; Year: 1951; Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger; Writer: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Dennis Arundell; Stars: Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Tchérina, Anne Ayars, Pamela Brown, Léonide Massine, Robert Helpmann, Frederick Ashton, Mogens Wieth, Robert Rounseville, Lionel Harris, Philip Leaver)

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