Struggling against marriage, Laura Jesson, a young beautiful housewife, and Alec Harvey, a young handsome married doctor, who meet in a small café in the railway station, fall in love with each other and search for a solution for their life.
Noël Coward's Brief Encounter is, to my mind, not only the most mature work Mr Coward has yet prepared for the cinema, but one of the most emotionally honest and deeply satisfactory films that have ever been made in this country.
An uncommonly good little picture -- and one which is frankly designed to appeal to that group of film-goers who are provoked by the 'usual movie tripe.'
Radio Times
November 05, 2015
The leads are outstanding, but credit should also go to the forgotten Cyril Raymond, whose decent dullness as Johnson's husband makes those stolen Thursdays seem so special.
