Brief Encounter (Criterion Collection)
A story of the most precious moments in woman's life!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 26, 2016
- Originally Released: 1945
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Trevor Howard & Celia Johnson | |
Performer: | Cyril Raymond, Everley Gregg, Stanley Holloway & Joyce Carey | |
Directed by | David Lean | |
Edited by | Jack Harris | |
Art Direction by | L.P. Williams | |
Produced by | Noël Coward | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Krasker |
Entertainment Reviews:
Lean's sad, buttoned-up account of unconsummated love is about all of us and our cautious natures.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
...[An] expert adaptation....[With] elegant cinematography...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 5/5 --
Romance and goodness are evoked with equal power and from these conflicting impulses, voluptuous demons spring eternal.
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Little White Lies
Cyril Raymond manages to invest the stodgy character with a lovable quality.
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Variety
This is a poet's film, harsh, cruel and lovely. There have been few better British films than Brief Encounter even at a time when our studios are taking their place in the vanguard of this great contemporary art.
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Monthly Film Bulletin
Rating: 5/5 --
Sheer perfection-the gold standard of tragic romances whose influence can still be seen to this day.
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Time Out
...The most memorable treatment of extramarital romance in movie history... -- Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
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.
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