Same. Looking to go to Southeast Asia. Hope you all are doing well in the course. I go back to work next week, so I'm spending the last week of quarantine slamming out as many hours as possible. What big dreams are you all aiming for?
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.
I've seen this movie for the first time today in a concert hall, with a real orchestra playing the music... One of the greatest experience of my life.. What a movie.. And that concerto...
"thank you for coming back to me" in 1945 must have been even more powerful with all the brief Encounters that men and women had in wartime and Fred representing a spouse who understands and welcomes you back.
***** I always wonder what a sequel (say, 20 years later), with, of course, the original actors, might have been like. Perhaps better that it was never made, and we can just use our imaginations. A wonderful film, with wonderful actors.
Those last minutes stolen. My favourite film. You may think that’s a strange choice given what’s out there or maybe you don’t, but whilst there are some amazing films in the world, so clever, funny, brilliantly scripted and iconic. This film focuses on the one thing that drives the entire human race, Love. Impossible love that is gut-wrenching and heartbreaking and it encompasses the pleasure and pain and all the physical and emotional states that run parallel with being in-love to perfection.
This is one of the greatest romantic movies ever made; Celia Johnson's torment is so well acted it's painful. Her old-fashioned Englishness can scarcely contain the agony in those incredible angelic eyes.
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson are such masterful actors. They convey so much inner anguish and emotion that their characters are feeling with just a look. In the gap between Laura saying “just so that I could see him again for an instant” and “the minutes went by”, you can almost hear the desperation and dying hope screaming out inside her. The fact that Celia Johnson never won an Oscar is almost as tragic as this scene! And that phenomenal ending line...this film breaks your heart and then mends it!
This was one of my dad's favourite films and I remember watching it with him as a kid. When her husband says "thank you for coming back to me" gets me every time!
Yes, me too. You realise that Fred will look after her in his own way, as he has always done. The time when they'd be, 'old, old people would be in the 1980s!
Astounding performances, direction and the storyline... imagine watching this at the time, even now so powerful. So many millions trapped in relationships they don't believe in, with no love or passion. That final 'Thank you for coming back to me' even though she is still lost to what she truly sought. Cry? Oh, yes.
2:40 to 3:10. Ms. Celia Johnson's face shows you a flurry of emotions: from sadness and longing, to panic and despair and finally something akin to resignation. Whew! Don't know why but this reminds me of that scene in "Bridges of Madison County" - - at the stoplight....when Ms. Streep's character tries to gather up enough courage to open that passenger door....going as far as wrapping her hands on the door handle....the pouring rain.....the necklace hanging from Robert's rearview mirror....and Lennie Niehaus' gut-wrenching music. Two perfect scenes of heartbreak essayed by two superb actresses, though made decades apart from each other.
I love how the husband changes at the end from a neglectful and indifferent bore to the devoted and caring partner she needed all along. Almost as if she’s seeing him in a new light for the first time. And with that last passionate embrace, we know they will be alright.
He wasn’t neglectful or a bore. She just never opened up to him. He didn’t know what the hell she was experiencing and can’t be responsible for her inability to communicate.
What a beautiful ending. In a few lines it captures the profound love, forgiveness, and understanding of a loving marriage. The ability of two people that truly love each other to forgive eachother is one of the most beautiful and devastating things imaginable.
My marriage broke up this year due to my selfish actions and complacent attitude towards my relationship. The way her husband knows what's been going on and still has the care for his wife to be able to make sure she is okay breaks my heart. That's what a real man does. He looks after his wife no matter what he might feel inside. Fiction or not we can learn alot from this. What a film
I think one of the things that you brought up brings this to my mind: even though we may never see someone again, there is that one person who will always love us , no matter what. I list a great gal last year. We had not met yet, but we're going to. I'm still kicking myself...
I remember seeing this on a wet Sunday afternoon on BBC when I was about 8 or 9. My mum loved it but she said I probably wouldn't. She was wrong. I loved the whole thing, even tho' some of the underlying issues went straight over my head. I must have seen it nearly 200 times now and it remains my fav film. It also introduced me to Rachmaninoff who remains my fav composer. I've visited Carnforth too, where it was filmed and met a gentleman who did tours of the station. Apparently it's big in Japan too!
This film is sublime, one of the best ever! Perfect for "a wet Sunday afternoon." Another film perfect for a rainy weekend afternoon is "The Heiress" (1949), starring Olivia de Havilland, Sir Ralph Richardson, and Montgomery Clift. Incidentally, De Havilland "stole" the Oscar from Celia Johnson in 1946 - her performance in "To Each Their Own" is nowhere near as good as Johnson's in "Brief Encounter." De Havilland would win her second Oscar for "The Heiress", and it was much deserved. You seem to have great taste for film, so I just thought I'd make a suggestion!
@@johnsmith-bx4rn I've just finished watching on itv3. I haven't seen it for many years. I'm 47 sitting here with tears in my eyes. Thankfully my wife and little boy are out with grandad.
@@macc.1132 Thanks for sharing. Hollywood was and is, very politcised, and many excellent (foreign films) were overlooked, until a new catagory was introduced. Even today--2020, the Oscar for best Film, was finally--awarded to a Korean film, as best Picture, Not my choice--but look at the controvercy.
the reason this is a masterpiece for me, is the way the writers dealt with the british government outline for what the movie was meant to say. the government bankrolled the movie as propaganda. the way it deals with the subject of adultery in such a adult and compassionate way is really why its great. not once lecturing or scalding the tens or hundreds of thousands of married women that must have been having relationships during the war while their husbands were away. it just quietly said your feelings were magical and genuine, but this cant continue, you have to do the right thing and stop this as your husbands are coming home now the war is won.
Simply the purest art I've ever seen in the movies, the most touching of the final scenes, husband says to Celia: "Thank you for coming home" ... this is obviously tremendous ... "This is a whirlwind of feelings ... Finally, Rachmaninoff "Piano Concerto 2" and the Movie / 2 Masterpieces \ Timeless. * * * * * Worthy of anthology.
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..
David Lean, a powerful film-maker who could say a lot, even without moving the camera or cutting to a different shot. Watch the transition within the frame, when Trevor Howard leaves (Celia Johnson's point-of-view), Celia's friend enters the frame and sits down, her face in close-up blocks Celia's view, harsh reality taking over (2:28 to 2:34.)
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.
Superb! In my view, simply the finest piece of cinematography ever to have been made by British cinema. A tale of true love confounded by conscience and respectability. Surely guaranteed to make all but the hardest hearted to shed a tear.
Dr. Alec Harvey: I do love you, so very much. I love you with all my heart and soul. Laura Jesson: I want to die. If only I could die... Dr. Alec Harvey: If you'd die, you'd forget me. I want to be remembered.
The look of sheer misery on Celia Johnson's face would crack a heart of stone. This is what love is really like- the joy of awakening, of feeling truly alive, and, then, the heartbreak of having no choice but to stand by and watch it- or let it- die. For those who would condemn others for committing adultery- remember that adultery can be born out of love as well as lust or boredom, and think again.
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.
Brief Encounter is a 1945 British film directed by David Lean about the mores of British suburban life, centring on a housewife for whom real love (as opposed to the polite arrangement of her marriage) was an unexpectedly "violent" thing. The film stars Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard. The screenplay is by Noël Coward, and is based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life. The soundtrack prominently features the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, played by Eileen Joyce. Laura Jesson (Johnson), a suburban housewife, tells her story in the first person while at home with her husband, imagining that she is confessing her affair to him. Laura ventures into the nearby town of Milford once a week for shopping and to the cinema for a matinée. Returning home from one of her weekly excursions, at the station she gets a piece of grit in her eye which is removed by another passenger, a doctor called Alec Harvey (Howard). Both are in their thirties; each is married, with two children. The doctor is a general practitioner who also works one day a week as a consultant at the local hospital, but his passion is for preventive medicine, such as addressing the causes of respiratory illness in miners. Celia Johnson and Trevor HowardEnjoying each other's company, the two arrange to meet again. They are soon troubled to find their innocent and casual relationship quickly developing into love. For a while, they meet furtively, constantly fearing chance meetings with friends. After several meetings, they go to a room belonging to a friend (Valentine Dyall) of the doctor, but they are interrupted by the friend's unexpected return. This brings home the fact that a future together is impossible and, wishing not to hurt their families, they agree to part. Alex has been offered a job in Johannesburg, South Africa, where his brother lives. Their final meeting is at the railway station refreshment room which we see for the second time with the poignant perspective of their story. As they await a sad and final parting, Dolly Messiter, a talkative friend of Laura, invites herself to join them and is soon chattering away, totally oblivious to the couple's inner misery. As they realise that they have been robbed of the chance for a final goodbye, Alec's train arrives. With Dolly still chattering, Alec departs with a last look at Laura but without the passionate farewell for which they both long. After shaking Messiter's hand, he lightly squeezes Laura on the shoulder and leaves. Laura waits for a moment, anxiously hoping that Alec will walk back into the refreshment room; he does not. As the train is heard pulling away, Laura suddenly dashes out onto the platform. The lights of a passing express train flash across her face as she conquers her impulse to commit suicide; she then returns home to her family. In the final scene of the film, which does not appear in the original Coward play, Laura's husband Fred suddenly shows that he has not been completely oblivious to her distress in the past weeks, and takes her in his arms.
I promised myself I would cry for this movie, and I almost made it to the end. But when he said "if you die, you'd forget me. I want to be remembered" Fuuuuuuuuck😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@dsurfe3666 Then he should try English to describe what he really meant, without obscenity and symbols. I've never seen the 'F' word used in a positive way.
Once I met a musician in the streets of Toronto,I was on my way to a date,it was 2013.He approached me in the middle of nowhere ,it was really cute because he managed to do that without being a stalker.We talked for some time,he was on tour with his band.I personally didn´t like his band,but I really liked him.We kissed and parted our ways.Today I feel bad for not asking his phone number,this movie reminds me of him.
A proper film, no CGI and proper dialogue. You have to concentrate on what is happening, there are no constant changes which modern films have, to cope with those who need constant movement. I used to know Joyce Carey. Having tea with her once at her apartment in Belgravia I asked her what she thought about critics of Noel Coward. This tiny old lady, in her rocking chair, put up her head and said, 'Fuckers! They couldn't write shit on a shutter or fuck on a dusty Venetian blind.'. Not what I expected.
I think he 'knew' something was wrong but not the depth of his wife's love for this other man. I've been watching this film now for more years than I can remember and I still can't be sure about it, but perhaps that's the beauty of it, leaving the viewer to ponder.
Masterpiece by master David Lean, director of Passage to India, Doctor Jivago, Lawrence of Arabia, among other films. Against the story of an overwhelming passion between a doctor and a housewife, both married and with children. Dialogues, screenplay, photography, soundtrack and performances are the main highlights of this award-winning production, voted the most romantic film of all time in 2013, according to the British magazine Time Out. Brief Encounter shared the Grand Prix at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. At the 19th Academy Awards, Celia Johnson was nominated for Best Actress, while David Lean was nominated for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay along with Anthony Havelock-Allan and Ronald Neame. In 1999, it was in second place in the survey of the British Film Institute: 100 best British films of all time. Inspired Billy Wilder in drafting the script "If My Apartment Spoke". Curiously, the ingenious circular narrative, created by Lean, bears similarities to Pulp Fiction, by Quentin Tarantino. Another curiosity: Eric Carmen's well-known ballad All By Myself is based on melodic phrases from Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto # 2, which is part of the soundtrack for this film
A perfectly-crafted film -- beautifully written, expertly directed, superbly acted. The emotions - happiness, guilt, duty, sadness. OMG ... And that lighting & camera-work when she's at the platform's edge - WOW.
I've felt this. I was in a car. It hurt so much. Like emotional and physical. My chest jury so much trying to keep me from not opening that door and onto the highway. I'm glad I didn't. I would have missed so much!
I've been trying to find that scene quote for so long. I watched it when I was very young and it stuck in my mind so much. I'm definitely going to watch it again tomorrow.
Well she is certainly the lead and has more depth since the story is told through her perspective. Her performance is truly excellent. I have a personal liking towards Trevor Howard -- and I do think he is fantastic in Brief Encounter -- but I would agree that her performance is more complex and impressive.
That wasn't the message exactly. The point of the film was that no matter how 'in love' they were, it would be wrong to ruin so many lives just so they can be happy together.
The acting in this final scene by CJ is mesmerising. A woman almost mad and with a broken heart, unable to understand her feelings and what has happened to her. Truly tragic. Fred begins to understand something but he doesn't know exactly what❓ He is a good man but how many women could live with this guy❓ What a Movie.
It remains powerfully moving no matter how many times I see this scene. I'm sure the song: All By Myself by Eric Carmen is based on the Rachmaninoff piece. (To Know, Know Know You is a slowed down version of The Red, Red Robin comes bob, bob, bobbin' along - and others).
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!
Superb is the word! Highlights beautifully that for a film to have lasting impact it does not need a huge budget, special effects or a cast of thousands. A poignant, heart-rending tale that mesmerises with every scene to the inevitable conclusion for such times.
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 :]
"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.
The TEFL academy brought me here- in order to listen to the perfect received pronunciation of English. Not disappointed.
Same! TEFL gang rise up!
same
Me too :) Enjoying the research into IPA. Where is everyone going to be teaching?
@@basschatfield I was in Hangzhou, China before covid. Now looking at Taiwan.
Same. Looking to go to Southeast Asia. Hope you all are doing well in the course. I go back to work next week, so I'm spending the last week of quarantine slamming out as many hours as possible. What big dreams are you all aiming for?
Dear Fred. He only plays a smallish part, but gets one of cinemas all-time killer last lines.
Did he know?
@ He knew. Thats what makes the line.
@Qwerty123 He knows/knew what might have happened but didn't
Fred knew. He loves her so he knew her heart was broken. But he won’t leave her. That’s real love. 😞
@@AsYourCruiseDirector So much emotional complexity captured in just a few words and glances. Astonishing.
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.
The entrance of the busybody Dolly is really a cruel touch. If the film weren't so moving it would have been funny.
I've seen this movie for the first time today in a concert hall, with a real orchestra playing the music... One of the greatest experience of my life.. What a movie.. And that concerto...
Yassine Taoudi same!
Hayley Logue were you at the concert ?
Is no other like it ever, nor i think ever will be again.re makes of it dont hold a candle to it , Nothing ever will.
Yassine T.Benchekroun That must have been an amazing experience.
D surfe so very true.
"thank you for coming back to me" in 1945 must have been even more powerful with all the brief Encounters that men and women had in wartime and Fred representing a spouse who understands and welcomes you back.
- I want to die. If only I could die.
- If you die, you'd forget me. I want to be remembered.
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"Jump, you f....r, jump!" Sorry, just couldn't resist quoting Derek and Clive. :-))
***** I always wonder what a sequel (say, 20 years later), with, of course, the original actors, might have been like. Perhaps better that it was never made, and we can just use our imaginations. A wonderful film, with wonderful actors.
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.
"No one knew what he was really feeling"...very telling line .....(includiing his wife Madeline!)
Yeah so sad she was so obsessed with cheating on her husband
@@jehanariyaratnam2874 Watch again! And pay attention this time!
What a great use of a dutch tilt to show a character briefly experiencing a dangerous and erratic thought
Especially after shooting the entirety of the movie so straight-on beforehand. It comes out of nowhere.
Love how it’s Harry Lime who commented this. The third man is the king of Dutch angles!
Those last minutes stolen. My favourite film. You may think that’s a strange choice given what’s out there or maybe you don’t, but whilst there are some amazing films in the world, so clever, funny, brilliantly scripted and iconic. This film focuses on the one thing that drives the entire human race, Love. Impossible love that is gut-wrenching and heartbreaking and it encompasses the pleasure and pain and all the physical and emotional states that run parallel with being in-love to perfection.
Beautiful
This is one of the greatest romantic movies ever made; Celia Johnson's torment is so well acted it's painful. Her old-fashioned Englishness can scarcely contain the agony in those incredible angelic eyes.
Yeah so romantic she wanted to cheat on her husband....
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson are such masterful actors. They convey so much inner anguish and emotion that their characters are feeling with just a look. In the gap between Laura saying “just so that I could see him again for an instant” and “the minutes went by”, you can almost hear the desperation and dying hope screaming out inside her. The fact that Celia Johnson never won an Oscar is almost as tragic as this scene!
And that phenomenal ending line...this film breaks your heart and then mends it!
This was one of my dad's favourite films and I remember watching it with him as a kid. When her husband says "thank you for coming back to me" gets me every time!
YES! It's at that moment you realize: he knows. He doesn't know everything or the details, but he knows enough.
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I'm in floods of tears at that last line. Always.xx
Yes, me too. You realise that Fred will look after her in his own way, as he has always done. The time when they'd be, 'old, old people would be in the 1980s!
I'm in tears from the hand on the shoulder onwards.
One of my all-time favourite films, this scene is almost too painful to watch .
One of... If not the greatest ending in cinematic history.
Use to watch this with my mum who died last December. Brilliant film, my all time favourite and I cry every time however many times I view it.
Impossible not to cry at the end. This film is a brilliant classic. The casting, music and portrayal of such torment is superb.
I cannot watch this scene without crying.
Thats the whole point---so we will watch it over and over, for decades to come.
It's rightly considered an all time classic.
The film that moved Robert Altman to tears...
I'm not into romantic genres, but this particular one... sublime.
My all time favourite romantic drama. Can’t beat this. Always sob at the ending with Fred’s words
dolly messiter: number one film villain
Should definitely replace Anthony Hopkins as #1 on the AFI list 😂
Fuck's sake Dolly, you had one job and you fucked it up :(
bhenadrecra lol
bhenadrecra hahahaha 😂
Calvin Law she can’t due to this being a British film
Astounding performances, direction and the storyline... imagine watching this at the time, even now so powerful. So many millions trapped in relationships they don't believe in, with no love or passion.
That final 'Thank you for coming back to me' even though she is still lost to what she truly sought. Cry? Oh, yes.
I thought their 'love and passion' had every chance of re-instatement, at the close, and that this, was the message.
2:40 to 3:10. Ms. Celia Johnson's face shows you a flurry of emotions: from sadness and longing, to panic and despair and finally something akin to resignation. Whew!
Don't know why but this reminds me of that scene in "Bridges of Madison County" - - at the stoplight....when Ms. Streep's character tries to gather up enough courage to open that passenger door....going as far as wrapping her hands on the door handle....the pouring rain.....the necklace hanging from Robert's rearview mirror....and Lennie Niehaus' gut-wrenching music. Two perfect scenes of heartbreak essayed by two superb actresses, though made decades apart from each other.
I love how the husband changes at the end from a neglectful and indifferent bore to the devoted and caring partner she needed all along. Almost as if she’s seeing him in a new light for the first time. And with that last passionate embrace, we know they will be alright.
Did he buy his ticket?
He wasn’t neglectful or a bore. She just never opened up to him. He didn’t know what the hell she was experiencing and can’t be responsible for her inability to communicate.
This is so heart achingly sad, beautiful because it’s so exquisitely understated. It touches the heart in a way no other film does.
Bravo - well said.
What a beautiful ending. In a few lines it captures the profound love, forgiveness, and understanding of a loving marriage.
The ability of two people that truly love each other to forgive eachother is one of the most beautiful and devastating things imaginable.
My marriage broke up this year due to my selfish actions and complacent attitude towards my relationship. The way her husband knows what's been going on and still has the care for his wife to be able to make sure she is okay breaks my heart. That's what a real man does. He looks after his wife no matter what he might feel inside. Fiction or not we can learn alot from this. What a film
Well thats real love isnt it!
when Men were Men, well some of 'em
I think one of the things that you brought up brings this to my mind: even though we may never see someone again, there is that one person who will always love us , no matter what. I list a great gal last year. We had not met yet, but we're going to. I'm still kicking myself...
I remember seeing this on a wet Sunday afternoon on BBC when I was about 8 or 9. My mum loved it but she said I probably wouldn't. She was wrong. I loved the whole thing, even tho' some of the underlying issues went straight over my head. I must have seen it nearly 200 times now and it remains my fav film. It also introduced me to Rachmaninoff who remains my fav composer. I've visited Carnforth too, where it was filmed and met a gentleman who did tours of the station. Apparently it's big in Japan too!
This film is sublime, one of the best ever! Perfect for "a wet Sunday afternoon."
Another film perfect for a rainy weekend afternoon is "The Heiress" (1949), starring Olivia de Havilland, Sir Ralph Richardson, and Montgomery Clift.
Incidentally, De Havilland "stole" the Oscar from Celia Johnson in 1946 - her performance in "To Each Their Own" is nowhere near as good as Johnson's in "Brief Encounter." De Havilland would win her second Oscar for "The Heiress", and it was much deserved.
You seem to have great taste for film, so I just thought I'd make a suggestion!
@@macc.1132 it's just started on itv 3 , it's 11:05 on sunday 17 feb , not quiet afternoon and not actually raining but a little overcast so here goes
@@johnsmith-bx4rn I've just finished watching on itv3. I haven't seen it for many years. I'm 47 sitting here with tears in my eyes. Thankfully my wife and little boy are out with grandad.
@@macc.1132 Thanks for sharing. Hollywood was and is, very politcised, and many excellent (foreign films) were overlooked, until a new catagory was introduced. Even today--2020, the Oscar for best Film, was finally--awarded to a Korean film, as best Picture, Not my choice--but look at the controvercy.
This was my mum's favourite film - I didn't twig for years why she felt so strongly about it.
Simply perfect ending. Hollywood couldn't have resisted the happy finish. I love Dolly Messiter's short appearance. Great actress.
the reason this is a masterpiece for me, is the way the writers dealt with the british government outline for what the movie was meant to say.
the government bankrolled the movie as propaganda. the way it deals with the subject of adultery in such a adult and compassionate way is really why its great. not once lecturing or scalding the tens or hundreds of thousands of married women that must have been having relationships during the war while their husbands were away. it just quietly said your feelings were magical and genuine, but this cant continue, you have to do the right thing and stop this as your husbands are coming home now the war is won.
Very perceptive comment. I would never have thought of that, but I'm sure you're right.
@@howardjaeckel9500 je n’avais pas envie de savoir...
Everything about this film is sublime, the acting, cinematography, production design. I'm surprised it was made in the mid 40s.
The morality was of it's time. The whole production, writer , actors ,director, to musical director, was unsurpassed.
Simply the purest art I've ever seen in the movies, the most touching of the final scenes, husband says to Celia: "Thank you for coming home" ... this is obviously tremendous ... "This is a whirlwind of feelings ... Finally, Rachmaninoff "Piano Concerto 2" and the Movie / 2 Masterpieces \ Timeless. * * * * * Worthy of anthology.
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..
David Lean, a powerful film-maker who could say a lot, even without moving the camera or cutting to a different shot. Watch the transition within the frame, when Trevor Howard leaves (Celia Johnson's point-of-view), Celia's friend enters the frame and sits down, her face in close-up blocks Celia's view, harsh reality taking over (2:28 to 2:34.)
You just want to smack Celia. The silly woman has nothing to say but insists on your attention. That is called epic bad timing.
@@glenncordova4027 *Dolly
One of my favourite films... Never get sick of watching it and always have tears in my eyes at the final scene
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.
Those were the days--when Trains kept moving---on time. The amazing thing is--the station is still operating in 2020.
One of the most romantic movies of all time
Celia Johnson's face in close up is a virtuoso performance in film. Never bettered.
Timeless . Such a good film .
They don't make movies of this calibre anymore. Such a classic
One of the most beautiful movies of all time. Remember seeing this for the first time and loved this love.
I love Rach's piano concerto No 2. Bless you Mr Coward and Mr Lean. RIP
Superb! In my view, simply the finest piece of cinematography ever to have been made by British cinema. A tale of true love confounded by conscience and respectability. Surely guaranteed to make all but the hardest hearted to shed a tear.
Dr. Alec Harvey: I do love you, so very much. I love you with all my heart and soul.
Laura Jesson: I want to die. If only I could die...
Dr. Alec Harvey: If you'd die, you'd forget me. I want to be remembered.
Wonderful film. This incredible passion under such British reserve. Thank you for posting.
What a Movie, I'm not a big fan of old movies but there are some like this one id watch over and over again, 10/10
The look of sheer misery on Celia Johnson's face would crack a heart of stone. This is what love is really like- the joy of awakening, of feeling truly alive, and, then, the heartbreak of having no choice but to stand by and watch it- or let it- die. For those who would condemn others for committing adultery- remember that adultery can be born out of love as well as lust or boredom, and think again.
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...
As well as being a masterpiece in it's own right, Brief Encounter inspired both Billy Wilder's The Apartment and Wong Kar-Wai's In The Mood For Love.
In The Mood For Love?
No wonder that film is amazing.
I always cry at the last scene "Thank you for coming back to me".
Not just a great film.
This movie never fails to bring me to tears...
They meet as strangers, and even after everything they went through together, they part ways like any other stranger. 2:29 Cruel.
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.
Wonderful film. Makes me sad for a lost time when people were more thoughtful and generous in the heart. Lovely. Nostalgic.
Heartbreaking, and wonderful.
My favourite of all stories. I love this film, its so painfully beautiful and makes me cry everytime.
An English tear-jerker of the first degree----absolutely wonderful. Thank you for posting it.
A masterpiece on the topic of stolen happiness. What feelings can cinema evoke!
Brief Encounter is a 1945 British film directed by David Lean about the mores of British suburban life, centring on a housewife for whom real love (as opposed to the polite arrangement of her marriage) was an unexpectedly "violent" thing. The film stars Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard. The screenplay is by Noël Coward, and is based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life. The soundtrack prominently features the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, played by Eileen Joyce.
Laura Jesson (Johnson), a suburban housewife, tells her story in the first person while at home with her husband, imagining that she is confessing her affair to him.
Laura ventures into the nearby town of Milford once a week for shopping and to the cinema for a matinée. Returning home from one of her weekly excursions, at the station she gets a piece of grit in her eye which is removed by another passenger, a doctor called Alec Harvey (Howard). Both are in their thirties; each is married, with two children. The doctor is a general practitioner who also works one day a week as a consultant at the local hospital, but his passion is for preventive medicine, such as addressing the causes of respiratory illness in miners.
Celia Johnson and Trevor HowardEnjoying each other's company, the two arrange to meet again. They are soon troubled to find their innocent and casual relationship quickly developing into love.
For a while, they meet furtively, constantly fearing chance meetings with friends. After several meetings, they go to a room belonging to a friend (Valentine Dyall) of the doctor, but they are interrupted by the friend's unexpected return. This brings home the fact that a future together is impossible and, wishing not to hurt their families, they agree to part. Alex has been offered a job in Johannesburg, South Africa, where his brother lives.
Their final meeting is at the railway station refreshment room which we see for the second time with the poignant perspective of their story. As they await a sad and final parting, Dolly Messiter, a talkative friend of Laura, invites herself to join them and is soon chattering away, totally oblivious to the couple's inner misery.
As they realise that they have been robbed of the chance for a final goodbye, Alec's train arrives. With Dolly still chattering, Alec departs with a last look at Laura but without the passionate farewell for which they both long. After shaking Messiter's hand, he lightly squeezes Laura on the shoulder and leaves. Laura waits for a moment, anxiously hoping that Alec will walk back into the refreshment room; he does not. As the train is heard pulling away, Laura suddenly dashes out onto the platform. The lights of a passing express train flash across her face as she conquers her impulse to commit suicide; she then returns home to her family.
In the final scene of the film, which does not appear in the original Coward play, Laura's husband Fred suddenly shows that he has not been completely oblivious to her distress in the past weeks, and takes her in his arms.
Fabulous film, fabulous acting. It will never lose its appeal.
I'm a 6'5" guy but I always burst into tears at the very last scene "thank you for coming back to me£
Me too(well 5' 10" but whos counting!)
I do too.
@@doriswatkins count me in, 3' 7'
What does your height have to do with anything. Absurd.
I promised myself I would cry for this movie, and I almost made it to the end. But when he said "if you die, you'd forget me. I want to be remembered"
Fuuuuuuuuck😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
IT WASN'T SAID IN A LITERAL SENSE YOU BLOCK HEAD. THE REST OF US DIDN'T NEED AN INTERPRETER.
No one needed an interpreter, wasnt what was meant by the comment, maybe is you who needs the interpreter Mr Croft
@@dsurfe3666 Then he should try English to describe what he really meant, without obscenity and symbols. I've never seen the 'F' word used in a positive way.
I concur with the last comment... deeply moving... wonderful... tearfully sad
lizzie bywater A great story and I wonder if her husband knew what was going on and chose to ignore it?
Oh God! This is such a fantastic film ~ so beautifully written ~ so clever ~ so moving.
Once I met a musician in the streets of Toronto,I was on my way to a date,it was 2013.He approached me in the middle of nowhere ,it was really cute because he managed to do that without being a stalker.We talked for some time,he was on tour with his band.I personally didn´t like his band,but I really liked him.We kissed and parted our ways.Today I feel bad for not asking his phone number,this movie reminds me of him.
I felt the touch of his hand on my shoulder for a moment,
& then he walked away, away out of my life forever.
"And then he walked away, away out of my life forever."
A proper film, no CGI and proper dialogue. You have to concentrate on what is happening, there are no constant changes which modern films have, to cope with those who need constant movement.
I used to know Joyce Carey. Having tea with her once at her apartment in Belgravia I asked her what she thought about critics of Noel Coward. This tiny old lady, in her rocking chair, put up her head and said, 'Fuckers! They couldn't write shit on a shutter or fuck on a dusty Venetian blind.'. Not what I expected.
Easily in the top five of the best British movies ever made
Is top, always will be as far as im concerned.
One of. My. Favourite. Films.
I think he 'knew' something was wrong but not the depth of his wife's love for this other man. I've been watching this film now for more years than I can remember and I still can't be sure about it, but perhaps that's the beauty of it, leaving the viewer to ponder.
Flawless. My favourite film.
Excellent film, for incredible music
Masterpiece by master David Lean, director of Passage to India, Doctor Jivago, Lawrence of Arabia, among other films.
Against the story of an overwhelming passion between a doctor and a housewife, both married and with children. Dialogues, screenplay, photography, soundtrack and performances are the main highlights of this award-winning production, voted the most romantic film of all time in 2013, according to the British magazine Time Out.
Brief Encounter shared the Grand Prix at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. At the 19th Academy Awards, Celia Johnson was nominated for Best Actress, while David Lean was nominated for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay along with Anthony Havelock-Allan and Ronald Neame. In 1999, it was in second place in the survey of the British Film Institute: 100 best British films of all time.
Inspired Billy Wilder in drafting the script "If My Apartment Spoke". Curiously, the ingenious circular narrative, created by Lean, bears similarities to Pulp Fiction, by Quentin Tarantino. Another curiosity: Eric Carmen's well-known ballad All By Myself is based on melodic phrases from Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto # 2, which is part of the soundtrack for this film
Maurice: As m any films as Lean did, This one, in my opinion, is his best, with Lawrence next.
A perfectly-crafted film -- beautifully written, expertly directed, superbly acted. The emotions - happiness, guilt, duty, sadness. OMG ... And that lighting & camera-work when she's at the platform's edge - WOW.
I've felt this. I was in a car. It hurt so much. Like emotional and physical. My chest jury so much trying to keep me from not opening that door and onto the highway. I'm glad I didn't. I would have missed so much!
*hurt
One of the Best movies ever made, truly beautiful.
I saw this at the guthrie in minneapolis, MN. They did an amazing job stayed true to the movie and vision. Fantastic
a Stage version--I take it ?
I've been trying to find that scene quote for so long. I watched it when I was very young and it stuck in my mind so much. I'm definitely going to watch it again tomorrow.
Yes, a masterpiece in film making. The Rach 2 is perfect and the way it's woven into the film supposedly playing on the raido, genius.
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson are both fantastic in this film.
and so is Everley Gregg as Dolly Messiter.
Daniel Febrizio I found myself more interested in Celia Johnson’s performance.
Well she is certainly the lead and has more depth since the story is told through her perspective. Her performance is truly excellent. I have a personal liking towards Trevor Howard -- and I do think he is fantastic in Brief Encounter -- but I would agree that her performance is more complex and impressive.
Must have been love there i think!
@@fmbjr4818 then you do not know anything about Trevor Howard.
The most beautiful love story ever made. Or ever will be made.
James Vaughn : I believe you are right...
This is why in The History Boys they say, the train, the train! Never realized that.
Thank you, you tube chain posts!
That wasn't the message exactly. The point of the film was that no matter how 'in love' they were, it would be wrong to ruin so many lives just so they can be happy together.
The acting in this final scene by CJ is mesmerising. A woman almost mad and with a broken heart, unable to understand her feelings and what has happened to her. Truly tragic. Fred begins to understand something but he doesn't know exactly what❓ He is a good man but how many women could live with this guy❓ What a Movie.
Heard that Rach 2 was the musical score. Enjoyed the film very much as well.
It remains powerfully moving no matter how many times I see this scene. I'm sure the song: All By Myself by Eric Carmen is based on the Rachmaninoff piece. (To Know, Know Know You is a slowed down version of The Red, Red Robin comes bob, bob, bobbin' along - and others).
Yes, the verse of "All by myself" is Rach's piano concerto in C minor.
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!
One of my favourite films. Classic. Seen it. Loads. Of. Times. Great. Every. Time.
Superb is the word! Highlights beautifully that for a film to have lasting impact it does not need a huge budget, special effects or a cast of thousands. A poignant, heart-rending tale that mesmerises with every scene to the inevitable conclusion for such times.
A perfect summary of human emotion...
My mum loves this film so much bless her :)
I bought the DVD, I love everything about this film!
Thank you!
This is one of the best Love stories ever!
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 :]
what an extraordinarily beautiful film! the black and white looks like color in the new dcp restoration
It has what most modern films don't possess - class and restraint.
"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.