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Spain Spain · Segovia
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Drama. Romance. Fantasy. Comedy Returning to England from a bombing run in May 1945, flyer Peter Carter's plane is damaged and his parachute ripped to shreds. He has his crew bail out safely, but figures it is curtains for himself. He gets on the radio, and talks to June, a young American woman working for the USAAF, and they are quite moved by each other's voices. Then he jumps, preferring this to burning up with his plane. He wakes up in the surf. It was his time to ... [+]
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October 27, 2008
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Sin llegar a la altura de sus 3 obras maestras (Coronel Blimb, Narciso negro, Las zapatillas rojas), A vida o muerte es una notabilísima película que mezcla fantasía y realidad (¿o fue todo un sueño?, con un arranque impresionante -y sorprendente- y un romanticismo que impregna todo el film. Visualmente es maravillosa. Únicamente falla en la parte del juicio, claramente desfasado en su discurso y demasiado largo, rompiendo el ritmo.
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