Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter, a romantic Drama was directed by David Lean and has been rated as an average weighted movie. The movie was premiered in UK on 26th November in 1945 and released in the USA on 24th August 1946. A special screening of the movie was done at the Cannes Film Festival in September 1946

Brief Encounter was also screened at the UK Film Festival on January 9th 2004 that was held at Hong Kong. Brief Encounter (1945) revolves around the meeting of Laura Jesson with Doctor Alec Harvey at a cafй at a railway station. The story moves further with the culmination of an amorous relationship between Laura Jessen and Alec Harvey. What lies strange in the normal course of events is that both of them fall for each other at that very day itself even after being married previously. They fix up a day to meet each other and accordingly meet every Thursday at that particular small cafй at the railway station. But it appears to them that being in love is just not possible for them. Brief Encounter may realistically appear as an artifact of the most recent times. In the colonial days the legacy or the British custom to maintain faithfulness as most keenly felt. David Lean’s fourth film Brief encounter remains a study of true love or rather the promise of being in to the relation of love itself. The aching desire for an intimacy with the beloved ones often tends to be subdued by the obligations that one has to fulfill after getting married to someone.

The ordinary Londoners Alec and Laura meet by chance at a small cafй at the railway station, through quite a romantic disposition. Alec tries to remove a fleck of ash from Laura’s eye. Thus begins the feeling of love between the commoners due to the brief encounter. The meetings at the small cafй at the railway station leads to the growth of their casual attraction. They engage in quiet conversation and longing expressions that result in to a desperate recognition of mutual love and admiration. The 85-minute film turns in to a bracing study of romantic suspense that often turns into outbursts of paranoid outbursts. The romantic movies often turn into a spy thriller, where the help of the brief encounters between Laura and Alec consummates the brief encounter. A unique presentation in terms of story, the Brief Encounter, vividly describes the various emotions of love itself. The cast comprises of Laura Jesson as Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey, and Stanley Holloway as Albert Godby besides Joyce Carey as Myrtle Bagot and more. The Black and White movie had locations at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire and England in United Kingdom. Imdb

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