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Brief Encounter (1945)
Director: David Lean
Movie review
From Time Out London
Critics love to pick at Lean and Coward's oh-so-polite study of English romanticism and repression, but frankly its their loss: those willing to give themselves over to its intense mood of swooning, tightlipped desperation will find themselves swept up in one of the most vivid and impassioned doomed romances ever committed to celluloid. Note-perfect acting and indelible location photography add to what is, in emotional terms at least, arguably the great director's finest hour.
Author: Tom Huddleston
Time Out London Issue 1928: August 1-7 2007
Cast & crew
Director: David Lean
Producer: Noël Coward
Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond, Valentine Dyall full cast
Duration: 86 mins
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