Described as one of Powell & Pressburger's greats - it's quite hard to know how to pigeon hole The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp as it's a war era drama which feels subversive and satirical about war and the military at times.I viewed it primarily as a three ages of man drama with comedic and romantic elements in it - and found the transformation of young radical to seemingly pompous and out of touch veteran rather moving and wholly convincingly played by Livesey. The mostly verbal comedy moments have also travelled well down the ages, while the romantic segments are touching enough to round out the production.
The new restoration edition looks amazingly fresh by the way, and shows off the weirdly lurid colour process to full effect.
Verdict: Involving wartime drama
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