I Know Where I'm Going
Written and Directed by the Team of Powell/Pressburger
1945
Beautifully set in the Hebrides Isles consider this romantic comedy a Scottish partner to Braveheart. The movie was shot in 1945 during the closing days of the war. The heroine is forced to choose between a local officer returned for leave and her fiance, a corporate military industrial titan renting out his own island. The early portrayal of a strong, positive, female character is also notable.
This quote from IMDB, a source I use a lot, says it all:
Let's face it ... they don't make enough movies like "I Know Where I'm Going." Sweet but dry as scotch; scratchy as thistle. Mystical as an ancestral curse but clear-eyed as the first clear day after a storm breaks. How many romantic comedies ask you if you know how to skin a rabbit, and then show you a golden eagle eating one, quite graphically, on camera?
The video clip below introduces our heroine to the journey ahead, including a nicely done dream sequence.
