Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter

24/8/1946 1h 26m 7.7/10

Overview

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.

Director

David Lean

Top Billed Cast

Joyce Carey

Joyce Carey

Myrtle Bagot

Trevor Howard

Trevor Howard

Dr. Alec Harvey

Stanley Holloway

Stanley Holloway

Albert Godby

Celia Johnson

Celia Johnson

Laura Jesson

Everley Gregg

Everley Gregg

Dolly Messiter

Cyril Raymond

Cyril Raymond

Fred Jesson

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

3/28/2022

7/10

Based on Noël Coward's play "Still Life" this is a super adaptation from David Lean as Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard meet in a railway station café and 90 minutes later we have been on a roller-coaster of emotions, all delicately and subtly discussed, as these two eminently middle class English people challenge their long established "civilised" values and conventions of behaviour. It's style is it's simplicity - the script is poignant and charming; if a little dated now. Stanley Holloway provides an occasional breath of air during this quite intense drama, and who can ever forget that Rachmaninoff is a huge star of this, too?

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