Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband. Before he was directing epics like The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962), David Lean made a very intimate, super old-fashioned British romance called BRIEF ENCOUNTER, based on the play, Still Life, by Noël Coward. The film is a little too stagey for me, but it's intelligently written and oftentimes gorgeously shot. It reminds us that infidelity never leads to anything good, but ERGHHHH sometimes in movies, we want it to happen so badly.

BRIEF ENCOUNTER is now available to stream on Max and The Criterion Channel.

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPZyNzSrm2Y