Showing:
BBC TWO, Saturday August 4, 1pm
Synopsis:
(1945) A young woman heads for a Scottish island where she plans to marry an old industrialist for his money. But bad weather prevents her reaching him, and she finds herself falling under the spell of the local laird.
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Director:
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Producer:
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast:
- Wendy Hiller (Joan Webster)
- Roger Livesey (Torquil MacNeil)
- Pamela Brown (Catriona Potts)
- Finlay Currie (Ruairidh Mhor)
Full cast and credits on BFI Screenonline.
Analysis:
After the relative failure of A Canterbury Tale (1944), Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger allowed themselves, for the first time since 1940, a break from propaganda filmmaking. The war is barely acknowledged in I Know Where I'm Going!, an unconventional romance set in the Western Isles.
For Powell, I Know Where I'm Going! meant a third visit to the Scottish islands, scene of his breakthrough films Edge of the World (1937) and Spy in Black (1941). The film once again demonstrated Powell's unusual sensitivity and respect for the lives and ways of remote island communities, and his spiritual feel for landscape. It was perhaps the pair's most personal film to date: a metaphysical love story which confirmed their continuing departure from Britain's realist tradition.
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