Ill Met by Moonlight. 1957. UK. Written and directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Based on the book by W. Stanley Moss. With Dirk Bogarde, Cyril Cusack, Marius Goring. 35mm courtesy Park Circus. In English, Greek, German; English subtitles. 104 min.
“The final film to bear a shared Powell and Pressburger credit follows a group of British soldiers, led by Major Leigh Fermor, who plan to kidnap a Nazi officer in occupied Crete. Despite the Alpes Maritimes, located behind the French Riviera, standing in for the Cretan landscape, the film has a vibrantly authentic sense of place—reinforced by Mikos Thodorakis’s rousing score—and is beautifully shot in crisp black and white” (BFI).