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  1. Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic tragedy film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life. Starring Celia Johnson , Trevor Howard , Stanley Holloway , and Joyce Carey , the film follows a passionate extramarital relationship in England shortly before World War II.

  2. 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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  3. Mar 29, 2010 · But one pioneer stands out as the archetype of the extramarital love affair: David Lean's "Brief Encounter." Warning: Spoilers follow. When one thinks of David Lean, small scale and simplicity are not what come to mind, but his vision here is as simple as its title implies.

  4. 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, …

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  5. Nov 24, 2020 · 75 years ago, on the 26 November 1945, Noël Coward’s enduring masterpiece Brief Encounter was released to cinema audiences. A classic of post-war cinema, Brief Encounter came to symbolise the British restraint that had got the nation through the Second World War, its popularity enduring to this day.

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  6. Jun 26, 2019 · Synopsis: Laura (Celia Johnson), a housewife, and Alec (Trevor Howard), a doctor, both happily married to other people, happen to fall in love with each other, quite by chance and apparently without calculation, after he removes a piece of grit from her eye.

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  8. Apr 23, 2016 · All the same, that perfectly describes Brief Encounter, David Lean’s 1945 masterpiece of British restraint and repression, which Criterion has at long last upgraded to a stand-alone Blu-ray...

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