Brief Encounter (DVD)

...is equally valid really, but Brief Encounter’s method just feels more sophisticated and respectful to the audience, somehow, although in reality it’s hugely manipulative. The narrative also runs in a massively interesting fashion. We don’t understand exactly what’s happening between this curiously intense couple on the opening scene, and that’s because we’ve arrive halfway through. All the smouldering glances and clipped lines are gradually explained ...
...she’s an adulterous tramp. Brief Encounter, for all its occasional quaintness, is a deeply engaging character study as well as a doomed romance. It pokes gentle fun at middle-class obsessions with decorum and discretion, while celebrating the very British habit of articulating the most powerful and passionate emotions through mundane comments about train timetables and the weather. Much more than just another footnote classic in cinema history. ...

Olly_Plimsoll 21.03.2005 (29.03.2005) · Read full review
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== BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945) == === DIRECTED BY DAVID LEAN === === REVIEW OF THE 2008 ITV DVD === === INTRODUCTION === Continuing my ‘Lean Season’ reviews this latest review is about one of David Lean’s earlier films – ‘Brief Encounter’ released in 1945 The film received Oscar nominations for Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay. It won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. It is at second place in the British Film Institute Top ...
...was the fourth film that David Lean had directed.. As with his first three films, the story was based on a play by Noel Coward. Coward himself worked as a screenwriter and producer on the film. My geographical claim to fame with this film is that the famous station scene with ‘that’ clock was shot at Carnforth station, Lancashire, which is about 10 miles away from where I live. I always think of this film as a British ‘Casablanca’, and like ‘Casablanca’ ...

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...can't be resolved. Brief Encounter is also a window into a long-lost world where women stayed at home, looked after their husbands and couples didn't divorece, where every railway had a tea-room and class distinctions were much more obvious. The accents are terribly terribly and in many ways their world has vanished But the film's emotions are still contemporary because true love is timeless. Several other factors make this a must-see. The score, ...
...near Lancaster, which has a Brief Encounter museum,,,,The trains the lovers catch together, and the ones they miss, are a motif for the fragility of life, the way chance shapes our lives; and, ultimately, the sadness of saying goodbye. Interestingly, Coward's original story ( on which the film is based) envisaged a similar tale involving two men. In the 1940's, such openness about homosexuality would have beeb unthinkable. Maybe one day they will ...

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