A Canterbury Tale: Following in the footsteps of the glueman to uncover the film's locations
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- Опубликовано: 11 авг 2013
- A Canterbury Tale: Xan Brooks follows in the footsteps of the glueman to uncover the film's locations
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To celebrate 70s years of Powell and Pressburger's classic, Xan Brooks travels to Kent to visit key locations from the film. Set during the second world war and loosely spun from Chaucer's classic work, A Canterbury Tale follows a land girl, a British soldier and a US sergeant as they investigate a mysterious vigilante -- a man who pours glue on the heads of local girls who dare to date servicemen ...
Footage from A Canterbury Tale courtesy of ITN Source/ITV Studios. A Canterbury Tale is available as part of The Powell and Pressburger Collection
I have watched this perfect film many times over the years and it was only recently that I realised that the scenes in the Cathedral are the blessing of the all characters. The film is still very meaningful and brings back memories of the eight days I spent walking the Pilgrims; Way from Winchester to Canterbury as a young man, and even recognise some of the scenery.Thank you for bringing it all back.
Absolutely right. Brought up in a time 10 years after the war. Walked the pilgrims way. Remember Canterbury bomb sites, car free lanes, kind folk giving us kids apples and water. One lady drove all us kids to town, Canterbury, from our camp site. Very different days. No body had very much. The kindness of strangers. Greetings from Yorkshire.
I love that film. It totally achieved its goal of making the Americans and British realize that they are family. Always will be
A gorgeous masterpiece, largely unsung.
Ray Davies from the Kinks carried this movies theme of the vanishing old England ways and disappearing quaint English villages withe his Something Else and Village Green albums.
one of my favourite films together with "went the day well'.... sadly cars have changed are villages and towns,.noise and speed replacing birdsong and daydreams..
Not only is this film about our ties with the past but Xan Brooks fails to make the point that it is also about the individuals relationship with nature and the landscape. Pity he did not give more specific references to the locations.
My all-time favourite film since I saw it first in 1991.
For more details about the locations see:
A Canterbury Tale Memories of a Classic Wartime Movie
By: Paul Tritton
Canterbury: Tritton Publications, October 2000. ISBN: 0-952-40942-9
Hi Andrew - it is not without irony that I notice this piece is book-ended by a sign reading "The Guardian - The Whole Picture".
I'm afraid that Mr Brook's piece neither serves the film well nor satisfactorily explains its aims. It is a beautiful, lyrical film deserving of great acclaim. One cannot watch it and fail to be thinking about it and the themes it explores, long afterwards.
I just saw it a few days ago and it is just about my new favorite as well.
And I agree, the theme of human connection to nature is so poingnantly and subtly expressed, as are all of the film's deceptively serious themes.
I can't think of a single other film that I've ever seen that is as light-hearted in tone and yet so wise in its observations of human nature. What a genuinely unique film. If it isn't the best film ever, it's certainly the most underrated.
Love this film.
My cousin lives in Bridge, near Canterbury and I stayed at his cottage the other week. While I was there, I walked into the village of Bekesbourne which is where Michael Powell was born.
I live in the next village of Littlebourne. Ian Flemmings house Is close by too. Seen blue plack on his birth place house.
@@curlysue3620 Yes, you're right. I think I remember reading about his house.
Shame the Guardian no longer treats cinema with this level of respect
The shutters have gone from the house now,unfortunately.Went a few months ago.
One of my very favorite films!
I love this film so much...
One of my favourites films too, P & P were great story tellers and film makers. Almost wish we were still in war time, at least then there was a community spirit, but then again maybe not.
A beautiful film. Along with "Tawey Pippett" it is the most benign wartime propaganda movie in film history.
Really interesting, and great to watch.
I would call their blessings grand and life changing, not little.
"They each receive a very humdrum, secular kind of blessing"
This was not at all my takeaway from this film and I wonder if an elaboration of this statement was left on the cutting room floor. Yes, the "miracle" that each "pilgrim" experiences corresponds to romantic and career wishes, which one might consider material rather than spiritual, but the overwhelming message of the convergence of the film's various sub-plots at the Canterbury Cathedral is that *divinity* has touched the lives of these three, humble people. The *source* of their blessing is most definitely NOT secular.
That is the whole point of the final scene.
Whether or not you are religiously are spiritually inclined, personally, an upward gaze is what the film's denouement is supposed to inspire. I'm not sure how it could be interpreted any other way.
Indeed. I found their blessings almost emotionally overwhelming. Funny sort of humdrum, that.
That was great thank you
Sorry ,this critique of the film is slipshod, and lacks insight.
If only the Grauniad was quite so willing to celebrate England and Englishness these days.
It will only celebrate their destruction.
It is, when there's something worth celebrating.
@@Pstephen Yup I agree, the corruption of our culture is irreversible. Little to cheer about these days.
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