Brief Encounter
Brief Encounter

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At a café on a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) meets Dr. Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard). Although they are both already married, they gradually fall in love with each other. They continue to meet every Thursday in the small café, although they know that their love is impossible.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Brief Encounter:

Celia Johnson
Trevor Howard
Stanley Holloway
Joyce Carey
Cyril Raymond
Everley Gregg

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At a café on a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) meets Dr. Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard). Although they are both already married, they gradually fall in love with each other. They continue to meet every Thursday in the small café, although they know that their love is impossible.

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The Guardian - 10/10 by Peter BradshawThe film is thrillingly, unapologetically about decency and honour, about, as Laura heartrendingly puts it, controlling oneself.
Monthly Film Bulletin - 10/10 by MFB CriticsThis is a poet's film, harsh, cruel and lovely. There have been few better British films than Brief Encounter even at a time when our studios are taking their place in the vanguard of this great contemporary art.
Little White Lies - 10/10 by Sophie Monks KaufmanRomance and goodness are evoked with equal power and from these conflicting impulses, voluptuous demons spring eternal.
Radio Times - 10/10 by David ParkinsonThe leads are outstanding, but credit should also go to the forgotten Cyril Raymond, whose decent dullness as Johnson's husband makes those stolen Thursdays seem so special.
Observer (UK) - 10/10 by CA LejeuneNoël Coward's Brief Encounter is, to my mind, not only the most mature work Mr Coward has yet prepared for the cinema, but one of the most emotionally honest and deeply satisfactory films that have ever been made in this country.
LarsenOnFilm - 10/10 by Josh LarsenShockingly 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.
Time Out - 10/10 by Keith UhlichSheer perfection-the gold standard of tragic romances whose influence can still be seen to this day.
Turner Classic Movies Online - 10/10 by Sean Axmaker... still embraced as one of the most romantic films ever made, and it has earned its reputation.
Daily Telegraph (UK) - 10/10 by Tim RobeyDavid Lean paints heartbreak with perfect decorum.
BBC - 10/10 by Nick HilditchDavid Lean ably directed Noel Coward's script for this intensely passionate film in which almost nothing happens.

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