Film Reviews by CSF

The pilot of a war plane is about to die and on the ground, a young woman tries to accompany his death moment by talking to him on the radio. This film is romantic (pure love), fantasist (disney like), innocent (even the bady is sweet), almost lyrical, extremely naive. They don't make them like that anymore! It probably reflects the change of our society. To watch with a scone/crean/strawberry jam and a pot of tea when the weather is awful and you feel lonely. However David Niven is not triggering any emotion. He is too stuck up, like a dummy.

The characters, the idea, the setting, everything was brilliant but the story was too far fetched. I had too many questions about it that remain without an answer.

We have there all the worn out topics of Psychology and Philosophy: The meaning of life, the Absurd, the depression. If the director/author wanted to illustrate these topics, then he was almost successful. I was bored, and, at the end of the film, depressed . The only scene I found slightly amusing was when the hero loses his face...literary. No trace of emotion.

On the technical point of view, it is extremely well done.

Alphaville said exactly what I wanted to say but, because I love Woody Allen, I put one more star. Still it is far from being his best film even if worth seeing.