BRIEF ENCOUNTER (PG) 1h 27m

Dir: David Lean

Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway

Genre: Drama, Romance

A cornerstone of British romantic cinema, David Lean’s Brief Encounter is a masterclass in emotional restraint and visual poetry. Adapted from Noël Coward’s one-act play Still Life, the film captures the quiet devastation of an impossible love affair between two ordinary people whose paths cross by chance in a railway station café.

Through Lean’s delicate direction, Celia Johnson’s luminous performance, and Rachmaninoff’s soaring piano score, Brief Encounter transforms the mundane into the sublime — a meditation on passion, duty, and the fleeting nature of connection.

Nearly eighty years on, it remains a profoundly moving exploration of longing and moral conflict, and a defining work of post-war British cinema.

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