"Brief Encounter"

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This black and white 1945 David Lean film is based on a play by Noel Coward and tells the tale of a doctor and a housewife, both married with children, who meet by chance in a British railway station and who over time fall in love. This theme has been visited again and again ("Falling in Love", "The Bridges of Madison County", etc.) and I think the appeal is that everyone likes lovers and also the moral dilemna that these situations put them (us by extension) in. The film stars Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, both of whom aquit themselves well in a genteel, upper class English sort of way. The music used is bt Rachmaninov. The beautifully restored Criterion DVD also fatures on screen commentary and the theatrical trailer.

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Topic - "Brief Encounter" - rico 10:36:20 07/13/04 (5)

My, how times have changed. Now, the context is that 50% of Americans - tinear 18:54:12 07/13/04 (1)

Re: My, how times have changed. Now, the context is that 50% of Americans - rico 06:26:34 07/14/04 (0)

Re: "Brief Encounter" - Buckeye 11:35:04 07/13/04 (1)

Re: "Brief Encounter" commentary - rico 06:29:50 07/14/04 (0)

Re: "Brief Encounter" - patrickU 10:59:08 07/13/04 (0)

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