similar based-on-literature, not-so-much-heard-of, well played UK/European movies?
shareAn a American film, but one that tackles a similar idea: Meet Joe Black.
I don't think Brad Pitt in the above film does the role justice, but worth at least a single viewing.
If you are happy to watch a black and white film from 1944 I would recommend "A Canterbury Tale". It has similar spiritual values, heightened by the fact it was made in wartime and very much about the war (WWII). It is contemporaneous with J.B. Priestley's play which was written in 1945. Don't be put off by the "glue man" part of the plot. There is a lot more going on in this film than that.
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Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world ... but for Wales?
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thanks! I did find A Canterbury Tale, but I stopped somewhere around one third, I guess after the glue plot, well I should give it another try then. That's a Powell movie right? love almost all his works that I've seen, The Red Shoes!!! talking about that era, another of my all-time fave is Brief Encounter.
but who knows which is which, and who is who
and then there were none
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