Honeymoon

Luna de miel

Flamenco, ballet and sweeping Spanish landscapes in Powell’s overlooked dance film.

  • Director

    Michael Powell

  • With

    Anthony Steel, Ludmilla Tchérina, Léonide Massine, Antonio El Bailarin

  • UK 1959. 109min

  • Digital

For decades almost impossible to see in its uncut English version, this restoration of Powell’s film stars Anthony Steel and dancer Ludmilla Tchérina as a couple honeymooning in Spain. The travelogue sections offer diverting vistas, but the film truly comes alive in its dance sequences, capped by ‘The Lovers of Teruel’, scored by Mikis Theodorakis and wonderfully choreographed by Léonide Massine.

James Bell