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Mood:
- EmotionalSentimentalTouchingCaptivatingBittersweetContemplativeSincere
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Plot:
- Human NatureCouple RelationsFall in LoveImpossible LoveInfidelityLove AffairLove and RomanceMind and Soul more...
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Genres:
- DramaRomanceMelodrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century40sWorld War 2
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Place:
- EnglandEuropeLondonCafe
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Praise:
- Award WinnerClassicCritically AcclaimedCannes Festival WinnerPrestigious Awards
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Style:
- Voice Over
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Based on:
- Based on Play
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Score:
- Classical
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Look:
- B&W
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Brief Encounter, 1945
English
UK
Profile of Brief Encounter
The mood of Brief Encounter is bittersweet, emotional, and sentimental. The plot centers around impossible love, human nature, and infidelity. It is a drama and romance movie. Stylistically, Brief Encounter includes a voice over and is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in a café. Brief Encounter is set in London. It happens during World War 2. Visually, it is black and white. The musical score of Brief Encounter is classical. It is adapted from a play. The movie is known for being a Cannes festival winner, a classic, and critically acclaimed.
Summary of Brief Encounter
Though he might be best remembered for sweeping epics such as DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, renowned British director David Lean began his film career with small-scale character studies based on the plays of Noel Coward. Lean's fourth film, BRIEF ENCOUNTER--which was also his fourth and final collaboration with Coward--adapts the playwright's heartbreaking tale of two ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary power of love. Laura (Celia Johnson) is a seemingly happy, middle-class housewife who meets the equally married physician Alec (a young Trevor Howard in only his third screen role) when he removes a speck of dust from her eye at a London railway station. The pair soon find themselves drawn together through weekly meetings at the station cafe, their casual encounters blooming into a chaste love affair marked by intimate conversation, longing glances--and the tragic realization that neither of them will be able to break the bonds of social propriety that keep them wedded to other people. Seen by some as quintessentially English, Lean's achingly lovely exploration of the conflicting demands of personal happiness and social responsibility remains nonetheless universal and timeless. Johnson and Howard's nuanced performances, Robert Krasker's shadowy cinematography, and a soundtrack of hauntingly romantic Rachmaninov piano concertos only add to the film's aura of quiet desperation.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 24 August 1946 |
| Runtime: | 86 min |
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as Laura Jesson
as Dr. Alec Harvey
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- 22.March.2009
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- by: coolerking
- coolerking rated this movie6/10Okay
