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William A. Wellman’s film remains extraordinary for aerial photography that places bodies and machines inside real motion. Its technical confidence supports a melodrama whose most affecting bond is the friendship tested by combat.
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The romantic triangle is broad and sometimes comic before war changes the register. Use the two pilots’ friendship as the spine, and remember that the 144-minute length belongs only to the named BFI programme presentation.
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The planes make distance look exhilarating until a face appears inside the cockpit. I keep feeling the film alternate between sky as freedom and sky as a place where friendship can become impossible to recognise.
— Momo
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