Brief Encounter music by Sergei Rachmaninoff
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- 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.
Adore this score! The music just sweeps you up off your feet and completely steals your heart! Like how Laura must have felt! Rachmaninoff is a genius.
Watched many times. It captures so much. Wonderful acting, script, scenery. Many of us have been torn in a bitter sweet tragedy.
British classic films at it's best
Just the most beautiful music and beautifully shot film with fantastic Actors!
Princess Diana's favorite film...And she loved playing this theme on the piano...SLEEP WELL DEAR PRINCESS! 🙏❤🙏
She loved this song.She played in Austrália .
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ah, this is so romantic! I particularly like the part wehre Celia Johnson is staring into Trevor Howard's eyes on the platform and the giant spaceship comes down and ... what? O sorry time for my meds.
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I've had a love like that and I still love him after 60+ years.
God bless you. If there's an afterlife you shall be together again - it was meant to be.
What acting. What music. Surely this film should always be in the top ten films ever
Always end up with a tear in my eye at the end. Beautiful film.
many tears...
An absolutely bloody wonderful film, with absolutely bloody wonderful music!
very beautiful music.
Thank you so much for posting!
Both the movie and Concerto No. 2 Brilliantly tragic. - hauntingly appealing.
thankyou for coming back to me..
Gorgeous music for a gorgeous movie.
A simple movie, well acted and Rachmaninoff; perfection!
Impossible to listen without gigantic lumpiness of the throat and a leaking eye! So tender, exciting, and unbelievably sad......
Watched it for the 34th time last night..always me sad..😍
I'll drive the train any time for you Tracy !x
This film needs to be remade...
Said nobody ever.
This film was remade,but was crap up against the Original.
I've seen part of a remake, with Burton and Loren no less. I'd like to see it all, but I don't think it had the magic of the original. I think there was also a German version.
I'd like to have seen a sequel to it, say 20 years later (when the mores had changed, and marriages were no longer seen as permanent), and also when intercontinental travel had become much cheaper and doable. The story could have gone in lots of different ways. I'm surprised it was never done. Could still be done of course, with different actors. Celia Johnson didn't die until 1982 and Trevor Howard not until 1988, so a sequel with them both, 20 or 30 years later, could theoretically have been possible. "Fred" (Cyril Raymond) apparently died in 1973, so even he might have been in it, although the story could have started after Fred's death, with Laura wondering what had happened to "Elic", and deciding to go to look for him. She goes to Heathrow to catch a plane to Jo'burg, just as he's landing there, having come to look for Laura. By remarkable chance, they meet. She fakes some soot in her eye, and he has a handkerchief at the ready....cue the music! :-)
Adam Warren... Why???
You may be interested to know that there was a very touching film made in 1980 called 'Staying On' starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson as an elderly British couple living in India. One can imagine this is what the couple in Brief Encounter would have ended up like had Laura run away with Alec (albeit to India instead of South Africa as he did).
@@Londonfogey Wow, thanks for that. I must try to get to see it.
Always brings a lump to my throat. ...
Sergei Rachmaninoff is buried in Westchester County, New York State. This motion picture was big time in the United States, and received Oscar nominations.
Best film and music
Quit the moralising for Christs sake, this was a love affair in a Britain just come through a bloody war where folks never knew if they'd be alive next morning . Bitter -sweet but beautifully acted and with a fabulous theme tune running through it . Heart breaking for all three main characters. A real classic theme, film and production.
What a music!!!
What a film!!!
Rach would approve. Eileen Joyce pianist superb
"Thank you for coming back to me." OMG!
Heartbreaking move and music
I GOT IT!!!! IT WAS USED IN GRAND HOTEL IN A SCENE WITH GARBO! I KNEW I HEARD IT SOMEWHERE ELSE!
used in Close Encounters of 3rd Kind
I have always loved you among other films..
The favorite movie of Princess Diana.She loved it and cryed so much...
Close friends knows that!!
There's a film called The Glass Mountain...with similar stirring classical music..Worth checking out
Wonderful acting by wonderful stars.
Anthony Howarth
can't
Such manners, class, etiquette, where did we go so wrong, or why should i say?
piano concerto no.2 in c minor... fascinating
so beautiful
Those were the days…..people had common decency and did not betray their husbands and wives. When marriage came before they had sex. And marriage most definitely Troy came before babies. For those with conscience, of course.
I just discovered Sergei today. What a great musician!
lots of people in England still have same morals and values - I'm included in that.
Hold on! Laura would have done it were it not for the unexpected return of the owner of the flat. But her love for Alex would not have lasted beyond a few weeks of wild passion. She was risking her genuine love for her husband for a dream of passion.
Showing a 35 mm print at the David Lean cinema at the Croydon Clocktower as part of the Croydon Heritage Festival on the afternoon of 24-06-2017
Apparently this was one of Princess Diana’s favorites to play
Its like a kubrick lolita theme
Inolvidable film
"Breve encuentro "muy buena película pero mejor la música de Rajmsninov. Lo que me fastidia es que corten la música dos segundos antes de finalizar.
It was fun while it lasted!
que lindo , gracias
Beautiful
Wonderful
this misery can't last.....
Well done there for cutting off the last 10 seconds of the music lol
What is the name of this song? It’s so beautiful
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto #2 in C Minor
It ended too soon. Why couldn't you have delayed a few seconds more?
Ithink the pianist 0on the film soundtrack was Eileen Joyce. Can anyone positively confirm that, please? Keith, Brit in Brazil
+Keith Short Certainly confirms it in Eileen Joyce Wiki.
The same music was played in another movie, can anyone,twll me which movie I heard it in? Im thinking a Garbo film.
It also appears in The Seven Year Itch....
England - 1945: Those were the days of high moral standards and a sense of duty and faithful respect of the vows of marriage and the intense feelings of shame and disgrace when such vows were broken by indulging in illicit affairs behind their respective spouses' backs....but at least the husband of Laura said to her at the end: "Thank you for coming back to me!" A sordid affair on a cold, dark English train station and in a dismal refreshment room.....
shame about all the coughing in the background !
Wondrous
Never remade , just added colour
it was remade with Sophia Loren and Richard Burton not a patch on the original one though
Also another film, Falling in Love with Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro in 1984 was based on Brief Encounter.
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fuckin lovin it !! thanks rachmany !!
Just wondering, if at the same time these two lovebirds were falling passionately in love with each other, for whatever reason, their spouses were falling passionately in love with someone else, and all four individuals eventually found out about each one’s infidelity, I wonder what kind of ending that would have been? Would they go back to each of their spouses and live their lives as if nothing had happened, or would they go back to their spouses forever reminiscing over the once forbidden love? My grandmother always said “oh, what a tangled web we weave when at first we seek to deceive.”
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it was a film folks!!! not REAL.....
STFU
Course it was real. It had steam trains in, and all.
Mike W Ellwood - I think you’re wonderful. LOL from Sydney AU.
Subbie Jon - now you’re going to tell me that Ingrid Bergman didn’t REALLY love Humphrey Bogart?