5/10
From England with love
15 April 2020
Amazing how this propaganda piece became obsolete in two years! By 1945, Winston Churchill was warning about the dangers of Soviet Russia occupying Eastern Europe, and describing the USSR as the "iron curtain."

Penelope Dudley-Ward is elegance and beauty personified. Laurence Olivier's talent is wasted in this poitical piece at the height of WWII, which even manages to glorify the then empire on which the sun never set.

Times have changed. THE DEMI-PARADISE is a capsule from a time that was far from paradisiac...
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