Monday, January 11, 2010

BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945)


To modern audiences, BRIEF ENCOUNTER may seem a bit too understated. And that is exactly why it is so good. David Lean, yet again, gives us another masterpiece. Two people meet in the railway station, and fall in love; but both are already married. Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto creates the mood for this film that defines the term 'bittersweet'.

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