BRIEF ENCOUNTER (PG) 1h 27m

Name: BRIEF ENCOUNTER (PG) 1h 27m
Start: 2025-12-12T13:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-12-12T15:00:00+00:00
Location: 27A High Street, TQ9 5NP Totnes, United Kingdom

Schedule

Fri Dec 12 2025 at 01:30 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

27A High Street, TQ9 5NP Totnes, United Kingdom | Totnes, EN

Dir: David Lean
Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
Genre: Drama, Romance
A cornerstone of British romantic cinema, David Lean’s Brief Encounter is a masterclass in emotional restraint and visual poetry. Adapted from Noël Coward’s one-act play Still Life, the film captures the quiet devastation of an impossible love affair between two ordinary people whose paths cross by chance in a railway station café.
Through Lean’s delicate direction, Celia Johnson’s luminous performance, and Rachmaninoff’s soaring piano score, Brief Encounter transforms the mundane into the sublime — a meditation on passion, duty, and the fleeting nature of connection.
Nearly eighty years on, it remains a profoundly moving exploration of longing and moral conflict, and a defining work of post-war British cinema.