Product Details

• Actors: Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Rosemary Leach, John Le Mesurier, Jack Hedley
• Directors: Alan Bridges
• Producers: Brief Encounter ( Breve incontro ), Brief Encounter, Breve incontro
• Format: Import, PAL
• Language: English
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000KKRIAK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #473,405 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Biographies, Featurette, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, SYNOPSIS: The combined star-power of two of cinema's 'greats' - RICHARD BURTON and SOPHIA LOREN - illuminates this update of one of the most poignant cinematic love stories of all time.BRIEF ENCOUNTER is Noel Coward's classic tale of a doomed romance. When unhappily married doctor Alec Harvey removes a piece of grit from the eye of fellow train-traveller Anna Jesson, little do they suspect that this chance encounter will turn into a passionate relationship. Alec relentlessly pursues Anna, but she is tormented by guilt as the fantasy dream becomes a nightmare of deceit and she realises she is betraying both her husband and her children. ...Brief Encounter ( Breve incontro )

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0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a encounter too much brief, August 13, 2006

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Carlos Vazquez Quintana "cvq" (Linares- Spain) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brief Encounter [NON-US Format, Pal, Region2, Import] (DVD)

This film is very good but has a central fail even considering it's made in the decade of 1940's. Interpretations, drama and black & white photography are superb. A man and a married woman, both in middle age, knows each other by hazard in a railroad station near London and falls in love. One must accept the moral and uses are these of the decade of 1940's, but even so, the situation becomes a little absurd as they don't consummate any sexual act nor even appears a slight suggestion. I think sex is exaggerated in today's cinema but in this movie it seems so hot passion rest incomplete and unreal, being substituted by cinema sessions, restaurant lunches and many walking by countryside, and that seems to me a little absurd. Also, curiously I have the feeling this film is conceived under a feminine point of view, being the director a man.