Ill Met By Moonlight

Quite fun late piece (1957) from Powell and Pressburger, starring Dirk Bogarde.
It is difficult to talk much about the direction, due to it being of such a minimal degree. A few tricks are used, the general montages for the Cretan dancing, eyelines, going almost perversly far away to shoot German characters, but generally it is about as invisible as you can get.
This film is really just a nice piece of fun, a little silly at times. We have some lovely views of Crete, and some nice, mildly patronising, local colour.
Politically it is not entirely without interest, the idea of the capture by 'amateurs', and the stirring fightback by the colonized, make this some good stiff-upper-lip reinforcing Britain's heroism in world war two. Not that we would actually see any violence or death or ambiguity; the narrative structure heroically involves this.
A good bit of fun.