Brief Encounter
A film by David Lean
w/ Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
I can think of only a handful of movies which thoughtfully look into these matters of the heart. Pictures like Bud Yorkin’s Twice in a Lifetime, Clint Eastwood’s “The Bridges of Madison County,” Adrian Lyne’s “Unfaithful,” and Sofia Coppola’s “Lost In Translation” are some of the most recent. But one pioneer stands out as the archetype of the extramarital love affair: David Lean‘s “Brief Encounter.”
Roger Ebert
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w/ Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
I can think of only a handful of movies which thoughtfully look into these matters of the heart. Pictures like Bud Yorkin’s Twice in a Lifetime, Clint Eastwood’s “The Bridges of Madison County,” Adrian Lyne’s “Unfaithful,” and Sofia Coppola’s “Lost In Translation” are some of the most recent. But one pioneer stands out as the archetype of the extramarital love affair: David Lean‘s “Brief Encounter.”
Roger Ebert
RogerEbert.com
