Brief Encounter
82 minutes,
UK (1945), PG
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(4.7 / 127 votes)
(4.7 / 127 votes)
David Lean breaks out the stiff upper lips for his restrained, yet emotionally charged, examination of forbidden passions in 1940s England
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Brief Encounter : While most of Lean's work falls firmly into the epic category - both in subject matter and treatment - with Brief Encounter he eschews his trademark grand, sweeping statements in favour of taut melodrama.
After a chance meeting at a suburban railway station, Doctor Alec Harvey (Howard) and housewife Laura Jesson (Johnson) embark on a remarkably chaste, yet overwhelmingly passionate, affair...
Read the Brief Encounter full reviewAfter a chance meeting at a suburban railway station, Doctor Alec Harvey (Howard) and housewife Laura Jesson (Johnson) embark on a remarkably chaste, yet overwhelmingly passionate, affair...
