Brief Encounter (1945)

Director: David Lean
Country: United Kingdom

What can I say about this David Lean's masterpiece? this was my second Lean's film and it's absolutely gorgeous, I had an unforgettable experience seeing "Lawrance of Arabia" which is the greatest film ever made, and also a life experience as I always say. Brief Encounter on the other hand, is one of the most beautiful and saddest romantic-love stories I ever seen and it made me cry in the final scenes (yes I'm a cry baby)

 

The sequence in which Laura is traveling by train and imagines herself in different places around the world with Alec, with no responsabilities nor children, and being in love and happy together is ironically really, really despondent. 

 

We can see a terrific cinematography work, with shadows and lights in the right place and the iconic moment in the film when they kiss each other in the tunnel, that image of their shadows in the middle of the night is breathless, the train station and the trains themselves take part of the story as characters without dialogue or acting, but equal in importance as the main characters themselves. 

 

I could write thousands of words about how this film is very important in my life, and the simple fact of seeing the images in my mind makes me feel a lump in my throat, a heartbreaking love story and one of my favorite films of all time.

                            
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