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"Brief Encounter" is one of the greatest and most emotionally resonant roman in the history of cinema – the ultimate melodrama about impossible love. It’s the British "Casablanca" continues to enchant audiences and men as well as women, even if it is old-fashioned, sentimental, and incorrigibly romantic.

 

Laura Jesson is a respectable middle-class housewife living a quiet, well-ordered life. On a routine trip to town, she meets Dr. Alec Harvey.
A chance meeting between two happily married strangers.
Their polite conversations turn into weekly meetings, and what begins as friendship soon deepens into something far more powerful and dangerous.

 

The brilliant David Lean, through the language of cinema and the soaring music of Rachmaninoff, elevates the film to a new epic level of sensuality – he captures the birth of love so intimately, it feels almost physical.
Utterly British in its mood: with old-fashioned propriety, an impeccable sense of style, a captivating charm, and a paralyzing, invincible fear of any hint of vulgarity.

 

Set against the backdrop of a foggy English train station, David Lean’s intimate and deeply moving film explores the moral boundaries of love, the ache of missed opportunities, and the emotional undercurrents that ripple beneath the surface of everyday life. With sublime performances by Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, and a haunting Rachmaninoff score, Brief Encounter remains one of cinema’s most poignant portraits of love, duty, and longing.