The Astonished Heart (film) The Astonished Heart (film) The Astonished Heart is a 1950 British drama film directed by Terence Fisher. It stars Celia Johnson, Noël Coward, and Margaret Leighton, and is based on Coward's play "The Astonished Heart" from his cycle of ten plays, "". Inspired by the great success of the 1945 film "Brief Encounter", which also had been adapted from "Tonight at 8:30", Coward agreed to have "The Astonished Heart" produced as a motion picture. As with the previous film, Coward also wrote the screenplay. Production began in 1949 and featured not only Noël Coward in one of his rare film
Still Life (2006 film) the former, and an 81% (out of 10 reviews) rating from the latter as of February 2008. At the end of 2008, "Village Voice" and "LA Weekly"'s annual film poll of film critics placed the film as the 4th best film of the year, and "Film Comment", official journal of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual end of year critic' poll of 100 film critics placed "Still Life" as the 6th best film of the year, with a total of 521 points. The film was voted the third best film of the past decade in a survey by the