Brief Encounter
By (Author) Noel Coward
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
15th February 1999
United Kingdom
Primary and Secondary Educational
Non Fiction
791.4372
Paperback
96
The simple story of an unconsummated love affair between a suburban doctor and a middle-class housewife, Brief Encounter can claim to be the most romantic film in British cinema. Based by Noel Coward upon his short play Still Life, the screenplay conjures up the drab, emotionally restrained world of post-war Britain better than almost any other literary text. It was nominated for an Oscar at the 1947 Academy Awards.Brief Encounter is perhaps the most moving and fully realised of all David Lean's films.