Brief Encounter - 1945
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Brief Encounter

Updated: 18 Jul 2022
Directors:
Ronald Neame Anthony Havelock-Allan Robert Krasker Jack Harris Lawrence P. Williams David Lean Noël Coward Noël Coward Harry Miller Anthony Havelock-Allan David Lean Ronald Neame George Pollock Charles Staffell Winston Ryder Desmond Dew Stanley Lambourne Margery Saunders
Actors:
Celia Johnson Trevor Howard Stanley Holloway Joyce Carey Cyril Raymond Everley Gregg Marjorie Mars Margaret Barton Wilfred Babbage Alfie Bass Wallace Bosco Sydney Bromley Noël Coward Valentine Dyall Irene Handl Dennis Harkin Avis Scott
Genre:
Romance, Drama
Country: no data
Year: 1945
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.
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over 4 years ago
The film is really about the dream life of the English, those secret parts of us that are most important and to which we have least access. It’s a shame to go to the cinema only to laugh (as modern audiences laugh at the supposed camp excess of another sincere movie, Now, Voyager). If you pass over the superficial culture shocks of 60 years passed (a lending library in Boots the chemist! a string quartet in a railway café!), it is as astute about the English character as it ever was.
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Actress
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5 years ago
What movie has the greatest ending? Brief Encounter.
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142 FLIISTs
5 years ago
What was the last film you saw, and name some of your favourite movies? Inception. Extraodinary, breathtaking mindmaze of a thriller. Badlands, Elephant, The Shining, Let the Right One In, Zoolander, Withnail and I, Brief Encounter, I am Love, Michael Clayton, The Prophet, the Bourne trilogy and anything from Michael Winterbottom and Steve Soderbergh, Kubrick and Hitchcock.
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Actress, Director
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"We had rehearsals for a few weeks before [shooting] where we all went around the table and talked about our experiences related to the story. It was an amazing way to get to know each other and all remind ourselves of what story we were telling together. Throughout the shoot [director Mike Nichols] would have weekly screenings for us every weekend of double features. The most disturbing one I remember was a double feature of Brief Encounter and Irreversible. It would be a lineup like that every weekend."
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