Gone to Earth
Michael Powell / GB, 1950 / 110 min.
The story is simple – two men fighting over a woman – but this version by famous duo Powell & Pressburger is a mysterious, fascinating melodrama in emotional Technicolor. Chosen by Albert Serra, subject of the current exhibition in Eye.
Hazel Woodus, daughter of a Welsh father and a Roma mother, lives on the border between Wales and Shropshire. She has an exceptional bond with animals, including a tame fox, and loves to read the book of spells her mother left her – much to the dismay of her father, who dismisses this as superstition.
Filmmaker/artist Albert Serra’s choice of a film by Powell & Pressburger (The Red Shoes, A Canterbury Tale) is thanks to a certain similarity. Like ‘enfant terrible’ Serra, this British filmmaking duo had no truck with the unwritten rules of good taste and despised all forms of realism.
Details
Director
Michael Powell
Production year
1950
Country
GB
Original title
Gone to Earth
Length
110 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NONE
Format
35mm
Part of
The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger enjoyed huge success with films such as The Red Shoes (1948), Black Narcissus (1947) and A Matter of Life and Death (1946). Eye presents the first-ever extensive retrospective of Powell & Pressburger’s work in the Netherlands.
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