The Red Shoes (1948 film)
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Mar 29, 2010 · With "Brief Encounter," David Lean (who earned his first Oscar nomination for this picture) shows his growing directorial gifts on route to his epic mastery of the movies and bravely deals with love that is frowned upon.
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey (Trevor...
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Apr 23, 2016 · Adapted from Coward’s one-act play Still Life, Brief Encounter employs a structural gambit that will look mighty familiar to anyone who saw Todd Haynes’ Carol, which lifts it wholesale. At a ...
Brief Encounter focuses on Laura Jesson, a typical middle class, suburban housewife who is not so much trapped rather than existing in a dull marriage. One afternoon, she chances to meet Alec Harvey, a GP who comes to her aid in helping her remove some grit from her eye.
Reviews 57% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings When doctor Alec Harvey (Richard Burton) helps Anna Jesson (Sophia Loren) get something out of her eye on a train platform, neither suspects they...
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Shockingly modern in sensibility, construction, and execution, Brief Encounter is very different from what one thinks of as a David Lean movie, whose historical epics have come to define posh, mid-century, cinematic excellence. Read More. By Josh Larsen FULL REVIEW.
Brief Encounter Reviews. One of the greatest classic romances, beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time. This timeless cinematic gem is just as memorable as David Lean's big, epic films....
Classic romance has adultery, smoking, suicide reference. Read Common Sense Media's Brief Encounter review, age rating, and parents guide.
Brief Encounter. After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) begin a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair.
Jun 26, 2000 · Brief Encounter was the fourth and final film that David Lean made in association with Noël Coward. Derived from Still Life, a one-act play which Coward included in the portmanteau Tonight 8: 30, the story tells of a suburban housewife, Laura Jesson, who by chance meets a doctor, Alec Harvey, at the end of one of her weekly shopping trips to town.
