Went the Day Well?

Radio Times“the finest Home Front picture made during the Second World War...” What makes this such compelling cinema for viewers, is the realism and restraint with which director Alberto Cavalcanti tells his tale and the naturalistic playing of his splendid cast...

Empire“A classic of construction and suspense...” Every bit as nerve-wracking as the rearguard is the insidiousness of the invasion and the careless confidence of a supposedly vigilant nation...

The Observer“The work of a true auteur...” One of Alberto Cavalcanti's supreme masterworks. It has a sharp sense of place just this side of satire, makes the principal villain an upper-class fifth columnist and is shocking in its ruthlessness...

The Independent“One of the most remarkable slices of wartime propaganda ever filmed...” Its very oddness is magnificent, as though Dad's Army had suddenly morphed into a guerilla conflict of kill-or-be-killed...

The Telegraph“The genial banter between the villagers prefigures Dad’s Army...” Into this haven of amiable Albion arrive a series of German parachutists disguised as Royal Engineers. But their fondness for Austrian chocolate, as well as their funny handwriting, arouses suspicions. Immediately, 'Plan B' is put into effect...

Channel4 Film“The film heads back in time...” A simplistic but effective piece of wartime propaganda with a strikingly dark interpretation of what happens when strangers enter an English pastoral paradise...

Time Out film“It remains a jawdroppingly subversive and efficient piece of work...” It establishes, with loving care and the occasional wry wink, the ultimate bucolic English scene, then takes an almost sadistic delight in tearing it to bloody shreds in an orgy of shockingly blunt, matter-of-fact violence. Still truly unnerving...

Guardian“A prescient masterpiece...” Propaganda this may have been, but how extraordinary, in 1942 – with the war far from won – playfully to imply that the home-front manners of British decency could easily be an insidious veneer...

Little White Lies“Not yet reviewed”

Total Film “Not yet reviewed”