Brief Encounter typifies the fleeting romance. It's a classy, passionate filmmaking endeavour whose lovers-elect prove themselves almost as helpless to the consuming nature of heartfelt emotion as they are to bad time-keeping. Alternately enhanced and hampered by the trapping of its aged brand, Lean's established classic illustrates his grasp of dramatic staging and thematic composition in the central duet he fashions with narrative strength and sensual clarity. It's flawed but sweet.

If I wanted a story of impossible and heart-breaking love, I'd watch Atonement. This movie doesn't come anywhere near Atonement, but is afterall well made. Just not interesting by today's standards.

Beautifully written and shot and utterly heartbreaking not least of all thanks to Celia Johnson's excellent performance. A look at love, marriage, cheating and guilt that manages to surpass all expectations from such a melodrama and which takes a sensitive, compassionate, non-judgemental perspective on a situation racked with pain and confusion.

Very beautiful! It has clearly influenced other movies.

Excellent classic. The direction of Lean is absolutely accurate, telling gently the story of a forbidden love.

Clearly they don't know how to do it like an American. You cheat on your spouse and get hysterical when they ask how you about your day. All this guilt and crying...it's disgusting.

Don't like at me I'm picking her nose

I feel guilty not liking this more than I did. It's a purely personal thing, but I find it hard to connect with characters that had such haughty, upper-class voices. At least the two main characters had some subtle dignity, though - I wanted to throw things at the screen whenever Myrtle Bagot or Dolly Messiter appeared.

*heart melts*

Narrated in the form of a hypothetical confession, Brief Encounter is an atmospheric and subdued story of a brief and constrained near affair between two strangers who meet at a train station. As the narrator becomes overwhelmed by the torrent of emotions and worry the movie nearly nosedives into a well of self-pity and ennui, but the story is thankfully self aware and narrator disarmingly self-effacing.

This just didn't have a huge impact on me. It's a fine film, but I found it hard to really connect to the characters. Beautiful, but a bit too drab for me.

A highly enjoyable film about temptation and forbidden romance and all that. The narration is kind of flat though.

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Even as an Englishman, "Brief Encounter" is so incredibly English, sitting through it is much like being repeatedly bashed over the head with a cricket bat by a morris dancer! It is still however a wonderful movie; beautifully performed, shot and scored. It has dated fairly severely in some ways, but Lean's immence ability is such that this movie at all times feels like a loving homage to the era in which it was made, rather than an outdated relic of romance in a bygone era. Brilliant.

Aldatmak, kacamak, tren istasyonu, ic ses, (evli bir kadin ve evli bir adamin yasak askini anlatiyor. Kadin sürekli bir ikilem icindedir. Ahlaki olarak kendini sorgular)

Touching, but a bit too understated and dry. The narration is cheap and superficial, and I didn't care much for Celia Johnson in general, but the romance is sweet.

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