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dixiegrrrrl

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17. Brief Encounter

Thu Jan 16, 2014, 08:50 AM

Jan 2014

Struck me when I saw it a few years ago ( probably saw it on Turner network)
and has always stayed in my mind. It quietly rather intense, and deliciously British.
David Lean did a lot of marvelous films, I found this one by accident.

"Brief Encounter is a 1945 British film directed by David Lean about the conventions of British suburban life, centring on a housewife for whom real love (as opposed to the polite arrangement of her marriage) brings unexpectedly violent emotions. The film stars Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and Joyce Carey. The screenplay is by Noël Coward, and is based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life. The soundtrack prominently features the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, played by Eileen Joyce"
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