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Brief Encounter (Criterion Collection)

Starring: Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson, Everley Gregg, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey & Cyril Raymond Director: David Lean

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DVD Features:

Rated: Unrated
Closed captioning available
Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
Video: Black & White
Released: May 16, 2000
Originally Released: 1946
Label: Criterion
Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
Packaging: Keep Case
Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:

Dolby Digital Mono - English
Dolby Digital Mono - Italian

Additional Release Material:

Audio Commentary: Bruce Eder - Film Historian
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer

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Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring		Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson, Everley Gregg, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey & Cyril Raymond
Performer		Joyce Carey, Everley Gregg, Stanley Holloway & Cyril Raymond
Directed by		David Lean
Edited by		Jack Harris
Art Direction by		L. P. Williams
Produced by		Ronald Neame & Anthony Havelock-Allan
Director of Photography		Robert Krasker

Entertainment Reviews:

Entertainment Weekly - 07/14/1995
"...The most memorable treatment of extramarital romance in movie history..." -- Rating: A-

Total Film - 05/01/2000
"...This 1946 romantic drama still packs an emotional punch. David Lean's direction is assured, the script is poignant, and the performances are superb..."

Sight and Sound - 06/01/2001
"...[An] expert adaptation....[With] elegant cinematography..."

Empire - 09/01/2007
5 stars out of 5 -- "Lean's direction and Noel Coward's expertly crafted script are letter-perfect..."

Product Description:

Though he might be best remembered for sweeping epics such as DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, renowned British director David Lean began his film career with small-scale character studies based on the plays of Noel Coward. Lean's fourth film, BRIEF ENCOUNTER--which was also his fourth and final collaboration with Coward--adapts the playwright's heartbreaking tale of two ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary power of love. Laura (Celia Johnson) is a seemingly happy, middle-class housewife who meets the equally married physician Alec (a young Trevor Howard in only his third screen role) when he removes a speck of dust from her eye at a London railway station. The pair soon find themselves drawn together through weekly meetings at the station cafe, their casual encounters blooming into a chaste love affair marked by intimate conversation, longing glances--and the tragic realization that neither of them will be able to break the bonds of social propriety that keep them wedded to other people. Seen by some as quintessentially English, Lean's achingly lovely exploration of the conflicting demands of personal happiness and social responsibility remains nonetheless universal and timeless. Johnson and Howard's nuanced performances, Robert Krasker's shadowy cinematography, and a soundtrack of hauntingly romantic Rachmaninov piano concertos only add to the film's aura of quiet desperation.

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Production Notes:

Filmed in England. The railway station used as a filming location still exists in Carnforth, Lancashire.
G.E. Calthrop was the art supervisor to Noel Coward.
Stanley Lambourne and Desmond Dew were the sound recordists and Harry Miller was the sound editor.
Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Director, Best Screenplay.

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