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In Sneaky Afterlife Romance ‘A Matter of Life and Death’, There’s Poetry but No God

In Sneaky Afterlife Romance ‘A Matter of Life and Death’, There’s Poetry but No God

Powell and Pressburger's witty wartime classic about a British airman who goes to court in heaven to appeal his death is a celebration of the human spirit that separates romanticism from sentimentality.

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