Review by John Adams

Another Sky is a nearly perfect little gem of a film. The most amazing thing about it is how low-budget it is and how long ago it was made. And it was the only film that director Gavin Lambert ever made. And I'll bet that you, like I, never heard of it.

Lambert was an Oxford-educated film enthusiast who edited the British Film Institute film magazine Sight & Sound in the late 1940s and early 1950s. I would guess that this experience left Gavin well versed in film technique because Another Sky is one well-crafted film.

Another Sky is the story of the somewhat prissy English nanny Rose Graham (Victoria Grayson) who takes a job being the companion to an older English ex-pat Selena Prouse (Catherine Lacey) who now lives in Marrakech, Morocco.

Best of all, this DVD has been digitally repaired to a flawless perfection. What a treat this film is to watch, and what a pity that it is not part of the general catalog of film classics. Perhaps with its reissue in this beautifully restored DVD, it will gain the recognition that it deserves.

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