I like to think of their trains in Clapham Junction, and their refreshment room as that awful place in the tunnel under Platform 14, the one that was a sweet shop in the 80's. Is it still? Please God, say it is.
Love this film. The ending chokes me every time I see it - you can see their hearts breaking. Two people doing their best to do what is right regardless of personal cost. Is it social repression? How much better would society be today if there was more self discipline?
@steveduncan2 Dear Duncan., Nope, not repression. One/you could say inhibition. . Keeping of secrets is not repression. . There is nothing external making the folk be secretive. . I don't think that in 2011, there is any less 'self discipline' than in those days, or even one hundred years before that. . One only needs to read von Krafft-Ebing to see that there was just as much discipline in olden days as today. . . Cheers. from, del-boy.
i hate how the film splits the words 'til death do you part' in half.. those words exist in reason. this film practically exhibits the idea that it is (or was) normal for honest married women to find love in another partners. why did she marry the crossword puzzle guy in the first place if she knew there would be greener grass on the other side? there is such a thing as being single. i thought the ending was great, but what if it had been just the opposite? she would have destroyed so much.
OOOH. SO THIS IS WHAT MICHAEL BAY WAS TALKIN ABOUT. TRANSFORMERS 3 WILL MAKE BAD BOYS 2 LOOK LIKE BRIEF ENCOUNTER. I GUESS THATS GOOD NEWS ! I CAN'T WAIT NOW ! SORRY TO INTERUPT ! PEACE !
Of course the whole thing about this film is captured in the last scene. She never had an affaire with Ales, she never even met him; he did not exist. the whole thing was a dream, a fantasy.
Even now, after so many viewing, the final scene still brings a tear to me eye.
@Claire93D "My dear I've been shopping till I'm dropping. My throat's parched. I thought of having tea at Spindles but I was terrified of losing the train."
@Claire93D Dolly says " My dear I've been shopping until I've been dropping, I thought of having a tea at Spindle's* but I was terrified of losing the train"
Very quick 1940's English speech, very hard to decipher for a non-English speaker
I love this movie, could watch it over and over! Some of my favorite parts are the great British trains, and of course the Refreshment Room, and Myrtle!
I love the ending. Instead of having a massive overblown goodbye, circumstances force them to restrict it to nothing more than a polite gesture. This is one of the few films where I feel sorry for the lovers and the husband.
If you like this clip then you must see ... 'The Astonished Heart' - starring Noel Coward and Celia Johnson. I believe this is being released on DVD in January 2011 at long last and will make a great gift for valentines day
A true tearjerker, for anyone who has any sense of right and wrong. Call me old-fashioned but staying power in relationships is sadly lacking in today's society. If more people lived by this code, Jeremy Vile would be out of an overpaid job.
However, is it right that Laura stayed? Modern convention states that she should have gone, flown free, abandoned her children, thought of herself, Not the right thing to do, of course.
Based on a Noel Coward one acter. I always thought the Rachmaninoff was a bit much; and this final scene, at least he had a wit to interpose the busybody. The other doctor, earlier in the film, was an interesting touch as well, to remind us of the sordid theme at bottom
That's so sad. I should say "Been there, done that". I had a similar experience. It stays for ever and it follows one around every day. But on the more prosaic level; My, - doesn't Crewe Station look good?
i don't know that it's changed that much. there are still mother's and wives who have a sense of conscience and wouldn't want to hurt their families in that way.
the difference is that divorce is so much more acceptable and accessible now. perhaps if it had been so in the 1940's the story would have had that extra temptation.
Also it seems that there are a few men acting high and mighty. Even in the time of the film the chances of a man walking out would have been alot higher than a woman.
This scene reminds me so much of my last gf, we broke up after 18 months in a very "brief encounter" way. We couldn't speak as we parted for the last time. I know I'll never see her again; this film speaks beautifully to those who know true heartbreak. A true masterpiece
Every time I watch this (which is often) I always want to scream NOOOO!! when Dolly walks in! It's so painful...and I don't even mean that in a negative way at all, quite the contrary: the fact that it frustrates me that much shows just how powerfully heartbreaking this movie is. Such brilliant filmmaking. Love it!
O-M-G when he puts his hand on her shoulder like that...I sobbed. I miss the days of cinema when these kind of doomed love affairs were done so beautifully.
I saw this in Film 4 the other day. Holy frick what a blinder....the end is brilliant and there is no way a modern film would end like it...buy this film its nails!!
I am a great big guy but I cry EVERY time at this closing scene---superbly acting and so deeply moving. The subject of infidelity is dealt with in a most dignified style.
the first minute of so of this kind of reminds me of that scene in atonement when James and Keira are in café. I have a feeling the actors took a look at this for inspiration.
Absolutely hypnotic..Just found this DVD alongside a wonderful ladys DVD player..almost thrown away by a neighbour. Celia Johnson?..her amazing eyes..I want to know all now.
What an actress Celia Johnsone was; just look at her eyes. Only truly great actors can act with their eyes like that, (think of Pacino, for example). Also, this film was adapated from a Noel Coward play, a dramatist usually noted for his comedy, rather than tragedy. Such a heartbreaking end, but such a realistic one.
Of course this film is heartbreaking to watch. However, the most touching aspect of the film is that a group of people can come together and create such a masterpiece of cinema.
This is a great film. Just goes to show, you dont have to have loads of special effects, BIG love (sex) scenes. How many films being made now, how many Hollywood block busters will still be being watched and enjoyed in 64 years time..???
God , how I love this film..makes my skin tingle for the last few minutes..Noel Coward and all of the cast have created one of the most true renditions of impossible love..
Well, what's great about it . . . is that if you show it to 25 year olds today . . . 95% of them will laugh in complete bewilderment.
And why is that great?
It shows us that . . . if these 25 year olds can lose the capacity to feel this certain kind of emotion . . . then maybe there are OTHER emotions that the REST of us have lost the capacity to feel.
How do we find out? And what would we do about it . . . if it were true?
makes me feel rather pleased to be British (please read in clipped 1940s movietone) ;-)
seriously, the cords of decency and restraint which yank her back to her husband are truly admirable and sadly lacking in our society today. Seems most modern day wives would've dumped him long before just for the times crossword habit.
I couldn't agree more. They don't make em like that anymore. This entire movie would have lasted only a few minutes if set in todays world; Brief Encounter 2009 "Hello you're a bit of allright" "You're hot!" "Lets go to my mates place" "Sure" "Hello mate, can we use your place for some hanky panky?" "No problem pal." "that was nice hanky panky" "I'll leave my husband in the morning." "yay"
Leave your husband..?? No luv dont be 'F'ing mad bint. Ive had you now.. No man can respect a woman who gives herself away so easy. Go home to your little life, husband and kids. Im off to have a life..!! Good byeeeee.. ;-)
Luckily for all of us who truly love movies, there are many many reasons for you Brits to be proud of your contributions to filmmaking.
"Seems most modern day wives would've dumped him long before just for the times crossword habit."
As usual, I seem to be out of step. I've always loved Fred, in no small part because of his oh-so-civilized post-prandial habit of doing the Times crossword.
i wonder what British women thought of this film at the time? Maybe brought home to them that some were not happy in their marriages and divorce was a shameful thing in the 1980's in England.
This, in my opinion, is a better ending than the stage production mainly because she hugs her husband. I know its not much of a difference but I like it so much more :]
This is the most beautiful love story of all time and always makes me cry! The thing that makes me laugh though is when her child says in a very posh voice "but there's no pantomimes in Joooon"!
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"I want to die..." Yeah, me too, anytime I come across this excremental terror.
I adore Noel Coward, but these withered and repressed middle-aged lovers are the coldest couple in the history of cinema. Foregoing the passion of their lives because of some hackneyed devotion to decency, just because that's what should be done, chaps. Cricket, and all that.
Ghastly, unbearable and utterly, utterly dreadful film.
He did sample it. The music that you hear in the background is the wonderful Sergei Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto #2. One of the most romantic pieces....
I'm on my mid-thirties, a bloke and have just watched this adorable film. I guess most of us had this sort of hard-to-say goodbye in our lives someday.
On another topic, is it only me who thinks Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2 is way too similar to still-to-come Nilsson's "Without You" ?
this is a magical film, it is possibly the best heartbreak film ever made. it is all about the words not said and impossible situations. only love for another can do this to you....
aunque pasen los años siempre me emocionare al ver esta pelicula, increible la interpretacion, lamusica ,es la sinfonia n. 2 opus 18 para piano y orquesta de rachmaninoff, .siempre lloro en la escena final. es simplemente maravillosa.
I love this movie too. It was all so dearly sad. But Laura did the right thing by going back to her family, and Alec to join his brother's medical practice in S. Africa. The encounter never really would have lasted because of the sneaking around they had to do. I love the music of Rachmanioff's Piano Concerto #2. It's the perfect accompaniment to the film. I have to get that recording and a copy of the movie.
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Oh, how romantic... Grow up. Your life is your own and if you don't have the balls to take the chances you need to take, then don't bitch about the loss of your might have been. You have no one to blame but yourself and no one will lament your loss as much as you. Get over it, or get stronger.
Do you think David Lean had some sort of thing for trains. Could there have been something Freudian in it?
tonygumbrell22 1 day ago
Brilliant storyline and well ahead of its time when made! Celia rules!!!!!
621Kershaw 1 week ago
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SeeLeekFilms 1 month ago
This is one of the best Love stories ever!
alexmckendrick1 1 month ago
What a g8 flim !
MsFanmail 1 month ago
!!!!THX !!!!
infoxtrott 2 months ago
''What ever your dream was, it wasn't a very happy one was it?''
''...No''
kustinbustin 3 months ago
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lewstone1934 3 months ago
can you imagine the modern version..... no perhaps not ( the mobile phones would be going off constantly)
lewstone1934 3 months ago
@lewstone1934
Brilliant comment - and oh so true!!
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florianska6 3 months ago
We all need some clandestine love. :) Er, how about the"relationship" of Trevor and his doctor roommate? heh.
Glinkaism1 3 months ago
Has anyone seen this on the PostSecret website a few years back...?!
Clementine648 3 months ago in playlist Movie Scene's
all bye my self, don't want to be, all bye my self an------y-more
kopynd1 3 months ago
@kopynd1 Hehe he stole it from Rachmaninov :)
EmmaDivaOfficial 3 months ago
Brilliant acting.
jayjaypen2 5 months ago 2
I like to think of their trains in Clapham Junction, and their refreshment room as that awful place in the tunnel under Platform 14, the one that was a sweet shop in the 80's. Is it still? Please God, say it is.
marginallymental 6 months ago
An English tear-jerker of the first degree----absolutely wonderful. Thank you for posting it.
jekorb 8 months ago
like if The History Boys made you look up this beautiful film
ArtemisScribe 8 months ago 29
Love this film. The ending chokes me every time I see it - you can see their hearts breaking. Two people doing their best to do what is right regardless of personal cost. Is it social repression? How much better would society be today if there was more self discipline?
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LieutenantShweinHund 3 months ago
Wow, been there. Standing on the edge of platform. 'cept, I only sort of came round after someone had rugby tackled me to the floor.
I've never seen this film before, only the History Boys rendition of it but I think I might like to see it now.
NickyLess 8 months ago
A bleak and tragic story; such a study in repression and heartless social repression. The stiff upper lip masking as ever the horror of the banal.
Wobdifurousness 8 months ago
@Wobdifurousness yah omg yah
arctictoondude252 4 months ago
@Wobdifurousness No, it's not masking the horror of the banal.
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What is banal about the holding of hands at her home with her husband who asks if there is anything he can do for her.
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Cheers.
from,
del-boy.
LieutenantShweinHund 3 months ago
I really liked this film, the characters remain so engaging despite it's age.
AdamPPrice 10 months ago
i hate how the film splits the words 'til death do you part' in half.. those words exist in reason. this film practically exhibits the idea that it is (or was) normal for honest married women to find love in another partners. why did she marry the crossword puzzle guy in the first place if she knew there would be greener grass on the other side? there is such a thing as being single. i thought the ending was great, but what if it had been just the opposite? she would have destroyed so much.
portalpwner 10 months ago
It Breaks my Heart
ast131255 11 months ago 3
NEVERMIND it's Rachmonnonoff which he copied
phatato 1 year ago
@phatato
Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano concerto - 2nd movement.
:)
simes205 11 months ago 2
IS IT JUST ME OR DOES THE MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND SOUND LIKE "ALL BY MYSELF"???
phatato 1 year ago 3
@phatato It is 'all by myself'.The song was based on Rachmaninov's concerto which you hear in this clip.
kinkyplunk 11 months ago
@phatato yes he used it as he said it was the most haunting music he had heard
cricket519 9 months ago
Such a nice film
phatato 1 year ago
As amazing and powerful as the rest of the film is, I could watch that last *minute* a million times.
As a matter of fact...
MonicaChilton 1 year ago 2
Kills me, every time
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deenajuliette 1 year ago
OOOH. SO THIS IS WHAT MICHAEL BAY WAS TALKIN ABOUT. TRANSFORMERS 3 WILL MAKE BAD BOYS 2 LOOK LIKE BRIEF ENCOUNTER. I GUESS THATS GOOD NEWS ! I CAN'T WAIT NOW ! SORRY TO INTERUPT ! PEACE !
MrPublickenemy1 1 year ago
Sorry, meant to type Alec
jeremy1000100 1 year ago
Of course the whole thing about this film is captured in the last scene. She never had an affaire with Ales, she never even met him; he did not exist. the whole thing was a dream, a fantasy.
Even now, after so many viewing, the final scene still brings a tear to me eye.
jeremy1000100 1 year ago
@jeremy1000100 No it was not a dream fantasy it happen but she was rememberign it at home way back. u need to watch the movie again.
fannyanne2 1 year ago
@jeremy1000100 .............She did had affair a long time ago and was thinking about it love this movie love it
fannyanne2 1 year ago
Absolute classic film but can anybody tell me what she says between 1:11 and 1:18 please? Much appreciated.
Claire93D 1 year ago
@Claire93D "My dear I've been shopping till I'm dropping. My throat's parched. I thought of having tea at Spindles but I was terrified of losing the train."
IJBLondon 1 year ago
@Claire93D Dolly says " My dear I've been shopping until I've been dropping, I thought of having a tea at Spindle's* but I was terrified of losing the train"
Very quick 1940's English speech, very hard to decipher for a non-English speaker
*Spindle's would have been a café in the town
trousercough 1 year ago
I love this movie, could watch it over and over! Some of my favorite parts are the great British trains, and of course the Refreshment Room, and Myrtle!
GreatSongwriters 1 year ago
of course the right thing to do was leave everything behind and start a new life. fuck your husband!
blakeyonthebuses 1 year ago
I love the ending. Instead of having a massive overblown goodbye, circumstances force them to restrict it to nothing more than a polite gesture. This is one of the few films where I feel sorry for the lovers and the husband.
missbabyice 1 year ago
If you like this clip then you must see ... 'The Astonished Heart' - starring Noel Coward and Celia Johnson. I believe this is being released on DVD in January 2011 at long last and will make a great gift for valentines day
filmbuff48 1 year ago
@filmbuff48 You can get it streaming now on Netflix. First in my queue - after I finish my current "Brief Encounter" obsession. :-)
MonicaChilton 1 year ago
It's a great film and I do love it so but now that I've seen the Victoria Wood parody, I just keep laughing during this film..
Kiyraesyn 1 year ago
Thaynk yoe sow mach. Reayly quiyte wanderful! A delyte to wautch.
Epc100 1 year ago
The last movie where people behaved in a manner I totally understand.
Relationships have never been the same.
nederland4045 1 year ago 2
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philia12 1 year ago
A true tearjerker, for anyone who has any sense of right and wrong. Call me old-fashioned but staying power in relationships is sadly lacking in today's society. If more people lived by this code, Jeremy Vile would be out of an overpaid job.
However, is it right that Laura stayed? Modern convention states that she should have gone, flown free, abandoned her children, thought of herself, Not the right thing to do, of course.
nickhutchinson1 1 year ago 4
@nickhutchinson1
Dear nikohut.,
You said to, so: 'Old Fashioned' !
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Cheers.
from,
del-boy.
LieutenantShweinHund 3 months ago
Based on a Noel Coward one acter. I always thought the Rachmaninoff was a bit much; and this final scene, at least he had a wit to interpose the busybody. The other doctor, earlier in the film, was an interesting touch as well, to remind us of the sordid theme at bottom
tonygumbrell22 1 year ago
It's all up to interpretation. Interpretation, interpretation, interpretation...
1Pianiste 1 year ago
A wonderful film.
MegaChris1963 1 year ago 2
I have always feared meeting my "soulmate" when im with the "love of my life" already...
Clementine648 1 year ago 2
The second best british film ever, after The Third Man.
Phoust76 1 year ago
I bought this film on DVD yesterday! It's really great! One of the greatest British films of all time.
KrazyKartoonKid 1 year ago 3
Oh England I miss you!
sameoldfitup2008 1 year ago
A wonderful classic film.
kieran196 1 year ago
Oh Lord, but this film is just so wonderful.
FlamingFairy 1 year ago
Wonderful film. Makes me sad for a lost time when people were more thoughtful and generous in the heart. Lovely. Nostalgic.
SylviesBoudoir 1 year ago 3
My favourite of all stories. I love this film, its so painfully beautiful and makes me cry everytime.
thepennybugs 1 year ago 2
Quite simply the most exquisite love story ever filmed.
jrtrmish 1 year ago 26
@jrtrmish
Fully agree with you.
I must have watched it a hundred times but it remains fresh and powerful.
florianska6
florianska6 3 months ago 2
@florianska6
Do you have any idea why you've watched the same movie so many times, or why you've said publicly that you have done so?
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Cheers.
from,
del-boy.
LieutenantShweinHund 3 months ago
@jrtrmish Absolutely. So so wonderful
FlamingFairy 1 month ago
That's so sad. I should say "Been there, done that". I had a similar experience. It stays for ever and it follows one around every day. But on the more prosaic level; My, - doesn't Crewe Station look good?
dewarfinch1 1 year ago 2
i don't know that it's changed that much. there are still mother's and wives who have a sense of conscience and wouldn't want to hurt their families in that way.
the difference is that divorce is so much more acceptable and accessible now. perhaps if it had been so in the 1940's the story would have had that extra temptation.
Also it seems that there are a few men acting high and mighty. Even in the time of the film the chances of a man walking out would have been alot higher than a woman.
rorox77 1 year ago 3
Simply perfect ending. Hollywood couldn't have resisted the happy finish. I love Dolly Messiter's short appearance. Great actress.
fordlandau 1 year ago 3
Everytime I see this film, I cry my eyes out......simply heart breaking
valentiner100 1 year ago 4
One of the most moving and stunnong movies of all time, but maybe because I am British
FineGuyUK 1 year ago
This chokes me up
halfabeet 1 year ago
This scene reminds me so much of my last gf, we broke up after 18 months in a very "brief encounter" way. We couldn't speak as we parted for the last time. I know I'll never see her again; this film speaks beautifully to those who know true heartbreak. A true masterpiece
7119munro 1 year ago 3
Every time I watch this (which is often) I always want to scream NOOOO!! when Dolly walks in! It's so painful...and I don't even mean that in a negative way at all, quite the contrary: the fact that it frustrates me that much shows just how powerfully heartbreaking this movie is. Such brilliant filmmaking. Love it!
MissHazelFlagg 1 year ago
i HAD A BRIEF ENCOUNTER WITH CELIA, SHE TROD ON MY FOOT IN 1957.
moneygob 1 year ago 3
god this was so ahead of its time wasn't it?
pigasus68 1 year ago
@pigasus6 Yes by 4 weeks.
moneygob 1 year ago
@pigasus68 And why are you telling God? What's wrong with us? I'm determined to get you to reply to me? Are you going to?
moneygob 1 year ago
@pigasus68 Or is this just a brief encounter?
moneygob 1 year ago
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moneygob 1 year ago
I saw this at the guthrie in minneapolis, MN. They did an amazing job stayed true to the movie and vision. Fantastic
aaronlosing 1 year ago
I did too...It was incredible!
gzannd 1 year ago
if it was me, I would grab Dolly's purse and smack her in the head with it
Tabroxfcc 1 year ago
so sad..................her husband knew..
cassidy322 1 year ago
O-M-G when he puts his hand on her shoulder like that...I sobbed. I miss the days of cinema when these kind of doomed love affairs were done so beautifully.
MissHazelFlagg 1 year ago
wonderful movie. ageless...
TheCristi80 1 year ago
I saw this in Film 4 the other day. Holy frick what a blinder....the end is brilliant and there is no way a modern film would end like it...buy this film its nails!!
KeepTheJoker 1 year ago
Likewise i recorded it and watched it today, its probably one of my all time favourite films now
beggo321 1 year ago
Flawless. My favourite film.
mattforsythe 2 years ago 3
To me it does not have any flaws. I love this film
GFacho81 2 years ago 3
it brings a tear to my eye every time
womford 2 years ago 2
I am a great big guy but I cry EVERY time at this closing scene---superbly acting and so deeply moving. The subject of infidelity is dealt with in a most dignified style.
9TheMajor 2 years ago 4
She ruined it, they couldn't even say goodbye properly. This is definitely one of the best british films of all time xxx
FuelledByForties 2 years ago 2
the first minute of so of this kind of reminds me of that scene in atonement when James and Keira are in café. I have a feeling the actors took a look at this for inspiration.
thatsigrid 2 years ago
BRILLAINT ACTING!
LickMyCuntMoFo 2 years ago
The eighties? this was the forties
womford 2 years ago
"God bless this ship and all who sail on her...."
yaknbo 2 years ago
Un chef d'oeuvre!...
où l'on perd mult kleenex!...
Je crois que la pièce originale dont s'est inspiré D Lean s'appelle " Still Life" ou " Still Alive".... je ne sais plus...
Merci pour ce post!
ctpatant 2 years ago
Absolutely hypnotic..Just found this DVD alongside a wonderful ladys DVD player..almost thrown away by a neighbour. Celia Johnson?..her amazing eyes..I want to know all now.
joelarama 2 years ago
What an actress Celia Johnsone was; just look at her eyes. Only truly great actors can act with their eyes like that, (think of Pacino, for example). Also, this film was adapated from a Noel Coward play, a dramatist usually noted for his comedy, rather than tragedy. Such a heartbreaking end, but such a realistic one.
Aviva2121 2 years ago
i choked up
iseaall1205 2 years ago
A masterpiece of movie making :- perfect.
gh2106090 2 years ago
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i wutched diz felm cos it was boring...not cos i wanted to
Maraguzzi 2 years ago
Of course this film is heartbreaking to watch. However, the most touching aspect of the film is that a group of people can come together and create such a masterpiece of cinema.
MartinPadderborn 2 years ago 5
This is a great film. Just goes to show, you dont have to have loads of special effects, BIG love (sex) scenes. How many films being made now, how many Hollywood block busters will still be being watched and enjoyed in 64 years time..???
crawleygat37 2 years ago
I suspect that this film above all others strikes a deep note with many of us who in some way or another have "been there"
both painful and deeply rewarding
womford 2 years ago 41
Indeed it does.
TeaLoverDenise 2 years ago
@womford also the musical inspiration for all by myself by eric carmen
cricket519 9 months ago
Watch "it can't last" frm thet same film on YouT. To die for, break your heart.
Godwindaughter 2 years ago
LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! I cried like a baby at the end. They really do not make good movies like this anymore. TRUE CLASSIC in every way
deltasigmatheta4life 2 years ago 3
Fantastic movie, one of the few love stories I actually understand.
With modern movies I can't keep thinking 'But I would never do that', 'Whats wrong with them!', 'think of your reputation'.
But I guess I'm a bit old fashioned...
nederland4045 2 years ago
I bought the DVD, I love everything about this film!
Thank you!
MosaicMaiden 2 years ago 4
God , how I love this film..makes my skin tingle for the last few minutes..Noel Coward and all of the cast have created one of the most true renditions of impossible love..
fordlandau 2 years ago 3
why "impossible"?
in "Still Life" laura and Alec have a real love affair
flaminia5 2 years ago
Excellent.
tel58 2 years ago 5
So what's so great about this??
Well, what's great about it . . . is that if you show it to 25 year olds today . . . 95% of them will laugh in complete bewilderment.
And why is that great?
It shows us that . . . if these 25 year olds can lose the capacity to feel this certain kind of emotion . . . then maybe there are OTHER emotions that the REST of us have lost the capacity to feel.
How do we find out? And what would we do about it . . . if it were true?
greenrate 2 years ago
"If you died you would forget me
and I want to be remembered"
soulstargy 2 years ago 4
Probably because a lot of modern blokes arent worth marrying.
takalua911 2 years ago
makes me feel rather pleased to be British (please read in clipped 1940s movietone) ;-)
seriously, the cords of decency and restraint which yank her back to her husband are truly admirable and sadly lacking in our society today. Seems most modern day wives would've dumped him long before just for the times crossword habit.
exsoulagent 2 years ago 33
nederland4045 2 years ago 2
errrr...you missed,
Leave your husband..?? No luv dont be 'F'ing mad bint. Ive had you now.. No man can respect a woman who gives herself away so easy. Go home to your little life, husband and kids. Im off to have a life..!! Good byeeeee.. ;-)
crawleygat37 2 years ago
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yeah
the fact the woman would so readily leave and cheat with the first guy that gave her some different sort of attention
says a lot too
clazza01 2 years ago
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JanWest24 2 years ago
The whole point of having an affair is NOT having it.
If they had the affair it would have totally ruined the movie.
nederland4045 2 years ago
"makes me feel rather pleased to be British"
Luckily for all of us who truly love movies, there are many many reasons for you Brits to be proud of your contributions to filmmaking.
"Seems most modern day wives would've dumped him long before just for the times crossword habit."
As usual, I seem to be out of step. I've always loved Fred, in no small part because of his oh-so-civilized post-prandial habit of doing the Times crossword.
4Topwood 2 years ago 5
i wonder what British women thought of this film at the time? Maybe brought home to them that some were not happy in their marriages and divorce was a shameful thing in the 1980's in England.
clazza01 2 years ago
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I had a brief encounter once but it was with a fat woman who kept farting!
moneygob 2 years ago
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I wish I could shink of shumting to shay :x
(DOHrah what a laughly surr prize!)
Lve it x :)
sorted2 2 years ago
This, in my opinion, is a better ending than the stage production mainly because she hugs her husband. I know its not much of a difference but I like it so much more :]
LooserLover 2 years ago 2
This is the most beautiful love story of all time and always makes me cry! The thing that makes me laugh though is when her child says in a very posh voice "but there's no pantomimes in Joooon"!
milsbryant 2 years ago 6
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"I want to die..." Yeah, me too, anytime I come across this excremental terror.
I adore Noel Coward, but these withered and repressed middle-aged lovers are the coldest couple in the history of cinema. Foregoing the passion of their lives because of some hackneyed devotion to decency, just because that's what should be done, chaps. Cricket, and all that.
Ghastly, unbearable and utterly, utterly dreadful film.
JohnnyContagious 2 years ago
The orchestral music in the background sounds like Eric Carmen's All By Myself...he must have sampled it, the similarity is too great.
sharona1981 2 years ago
just what i thought.
fingaherby 2 years ago
He did sample it. The music that you hear in the background is the wonderful Sergei Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto #2. One of the most romantic pieces....
IamKesyerSoze 2 years ago 5
thanks for letting me know, was dying to know that...
sharona1981 2 years ago
Such a gentle film. Britishness at its best.
dglekjofg 2 years ago 4
I've seen this play performed in the Marlowe Theater in Canterbury last week, and this REALLY made me cry.
Temaile 2 years ago
A love story without a happy ending...this movie's just...oh, there are no words.
sharona1981 2 years ago 4
I'm on my mid-thirties, a bloke and have just watched this adorable film. I guess most of us had this sort of hard-to-say goodbye in our lives someday.
On another topic, is it only me who thinks Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2 is way too similar to still-to-come Nilsson's "Without You" ?
Drosoaldo 2 years ago
makes me cry every time
mgsmgs2 2 years ago
The most beautiful love story ever made. Or ever will be made.
soami2u 3 years ago 3
God Bess Noel Coward!!
ginola108 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this super film scene.
How I eagerly wait for it to come out on bluray!
ginola108 3 years ago
this is a magical film, it is possibly the best heartbreak film ever made. it is all about the words not said and impossible situations. only love for another can do this to you....
NickSayle 3 years ago 3
I feel like this film is perfection--the dialogue, the subtlety of the direction, the acting--you don't see films like this anymore. <3
meladorimagpie 3 years ago 5
It has what most modern films don't possess - class and restraint.
docwra8 3 years ago 5
Such a wonderfully sad scene, classic film.
Beefxx 3 years ago 3
"Thank you for coming back to me"
God! I started crying along with her. I love Brief Encounter.
IamKesyerSoze 3 years ago 8
My favourite film - thank you for uploading.
desolationrow1 3 years ago
Thank you for coming back to me
scrutley 3 years ago 2
I FOUND A LINK TO WATCH THIS MOVIE ONLINE, FULL AND FREE:
blogger-films.blogspot.*com/2008/10/brief-encounter.html
(ERASE THE *)
deibid2003 3 years ago
this was my late nans fav movie its still a classic
londonkev22 3 years ago
aunque pasen los años siempre me emocionare al ver esta pelicula, increible la interpretacion, lamusica ,es la sinfonia n. 2 opus 18 para piano y orquesta de rachmaninoff, .siempre lloro en la escena final. es simplemente maravillosa.
RIVERORAM 3 years ago
Having gone through such an encounter in my life, I will always watch this movie with fond rememberances of a love once had and gone.
Kim31555 3 years ago
I love this movie too. It was all so dearly sad. But Laura did the right thing by going back to her family, and Alec to join his brother's medical practice in S. Africa. The encounter never really would have lasted because of the sneaking around they had to do. I love the music of Rachmanioff's Piano Concerto #2. It's the perfect accompaniment to the film. I have to get that recording and a copy of the movie.
reneecalling 3 years ago
I love this movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WESSYS 3 years ago
<3 this film
amazinglyace 3 years ago
God, this is so sad. But it's so breathtaking, just beautiful. The musical score, the acting, the accents, the whole period--was just beautiful.
ddixon06 3 years ago
heartbreaking. the secret.
shadesofblack07 3 years ago 3
heart breaking
briitaanee 3 years ago
It's romantic and heartbreaking. And powerful.
mollisaxamite 3 years ago
This is amazing. I really hope I can find a copy of this movie for myself.
LilliputSight 3 years ago
you guys are all dumbfucks if you dont understand the secret.
I felt the touch of his hand on my shoulder for a moment,
and then he walked away,
away out of my life forever.
the picture says 1:10:00-1:10:08.
what she says and this persons secret.
apparently someone she loved had walked out of her life.
ashleelovesyourface 3 years ago 2
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Oh, how romantic... Grow up. Your life is your own and if you don't have the balls to take the chances you need to take, then don't bitch about the loss of your might have been. You have no one to blame but yourself and no one will lament your loss as much as you. Get over it, or get stronger.
Croakdaddy 3 years ago
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i saw a secret regarding this on postsecret, and i don't really get it. :|
stfuharlyn 3 years ago
Probably my most favourite British film of all time.
Isolar 3 years ago
indeed a great secret .
shortcuttocos 3 years ago 5
so she cheated....mentally, physically....
what's all the hubbub?
partysqrl 3 years ago
This movie never fails to bring me to tears...
morningjane 3 years ago
her voice reminds me of Keira Knightley.
yumsexyyum 3 years ago 2
crazy bird.
midnightmover2012 3 years ago
I'm from post secret too. This is a really touching secret =^)
Robbrand2000 3 years ago 6