| Eagle-Lion Films | Release Date: January 21, 1949 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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A Canterbury Tale may be the most loving and tender film about England ever made. It’s a picture that’s steeped in nature, in thrall to myth and history; a re-affirmation of the English character, customs and countryside from a time when many viewers may have wondered whether this underpinning had been kicked clean away.
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A modern-day pilgrimage and profound comment on Englishness. [03 Apr 2021, p.20]
A Canterbury Tale may not be top rank of films from Powell’s canon. It’s dated in some unflattering ways (a stammerer is ridiculed as “the village idiot”). But it makes an adorably quaint snapshot — complete with marijuana joke — of the war in Britain and an English countryside perhaps properly spoiled by progress and by too many years of TV’s “Escape to the Country.”
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