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Joan
Webster is the very model of a modern woman (by 1940's standards).
As the title suggests, "She knows where she's going". Engaged
to a rich industrialist who has taken a lease on an island
in the Hebrides, she travels up to Scotland to marry him.
However, trapped in the Western Isles by bad weather life
takes on a different hue and soon Joan is involved with a
young Naval officer, Torquil MacNeil, who turns out to be
the local clan head and the true owner of the Hebrides island...
Michael
Powell and Emeric Pressburger made two of the greatest British
films of all time - A Canterbury Tale and A Matter
of Life and Death - and although I Know Where I'm Going
does not match this pair of masterpieces, it is a very satisfactory
work imbued with a subtle beauty and intelligence.
Powell's
love of rugged scenery shines through - a storm in Scotland
has never looked more menacing - and his use of the forces
of nature to drive his narrative is once again apparent, although
not as to the fore as in Gone to Earth which is almost
a hymn to pagan spirituality.
However,
there is something slightly uneven about the film, perhaps
because the rich industrialist, a pivotal character, is never
anything more than a distant voice on the telephone. But as
this out of kilter approach to movie making was at the core
of the work of Powell and Pressburger it's maybe not that
surprising they should ignore the [financial] force at the
core of the action in favour of the forces of nature.
Anthony
Clark
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