BRIEF ENCOUNTER (PG) 1h 27m

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

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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.
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