FILM · Romance
Brief Encounter
A married woman and a doctor meet by chance in a railway station tearoom — and fall, impossibly, in love. Noël Coward and David Lean turn restraint itself into heartbreak.
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Cast & Crew
Details
- Director
- David Lean
- Cast
- Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
- Genre
- Romance
- Release
- 1945
- Country
- UK
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
Reviews
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“All that longing, held in check by a station tea room and good manners. Restraint as devastation.”
“Lean’s railway romance holds its breath for ninety minutes. Nobody touches; everybody burns.”