Brief Encounter
Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life.
Plot
Laura Jesson, a respectable middle-class Englishwoman in an affectionate but rather dull marriage, tells her story while sitting at home with her husband, imagining that she is confessing to him.
Awards
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| author | Anthony Havelock-Allan David Lean Noël Coward Ronald Neame |
|---|---|
| award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
| contentLocation | England |
| director | David Lean |
| editor | Jack Harris |
| events | fleeting relationship forbidden love |
| genre | drama |
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| musicBy | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay |
| producer | Anthony Havelock-Allan Noël Coward Ronald Neame |
| publisher | Eagle-Lion Distributors |
| theme | romantic drama transport |