A different kind of romantic drama
“Brief Encounter” was voted the second-best British film of all time (just below Carol Reed’s “The Third Man”) by the British Film Institute. Adapted by director David Lean, Ronald Neame, and Anthony Havelock-Allan from Noel Coward’s play “Still Life,” the film explores a tragic love affair. Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) and Dr. Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard) are seemingly happily married strangers to each other who meet in the cafe at a train station and become friends. Laura is a drab middle-class suburban housewife married to an inattentive workaholic. Alec also is in a loveless union, which has driven him to find solace in work. Both come to realize the degree of their discontent as an attraction between them develops.<br /><br />Made in 1945, the film is remarkable because even though Laura and Alec engage in a furtive affair, they elicit audience sympathy, partly because we enjoy their delightful repartee and intelligent conversation and partly because they find in each other the attention and appreciation — and later love — that they lack in their marriages. The contrast between what they have and what they might have leads to the illicit affair. The tone of the movie has an elegance and gentility compared with modern romantic dramas, which usually run from melodramatic to cutesy. These are not wide-eyed teenagers swept up by infatuation. They are mature people whose chance meeting opens their eyes to the bleakness of their existence.<br /><br />Bonus features on the Blu-ray Special Edition include audio commentary from 2000 by film historian Bruce Eder; interview from 2012 with Noel Coward scholar Barry Day; “A Profile of ‘Brief Encounter,” a short documentary on the making of the film; “David Lean: A Self-Portrait,” a 1971 TV documentary on Lean’s career; and an essay by historian Kevin Brownlow.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) begin a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair. With it's evocatively fog-enshrouded setting, swooning Rachmaninoff score, and pair of remarkable performances (Johnson was nominated for an Oscar), this film, directed by David Lean and based on Noël Coward's play Still Life deftly explores the thrill, pain, and tenderness of an illicit romance, and has influenced many a cinematic brief encounter since it's release..