idealistic
love
family
spaces
elevates
edge
suburbia
Laura
shadows
long
open
helpless
love
time
passionate
captures
space
history
ephemeral
ordinary
wanting
Harvey
Housewife
together
aware
running
unsustainable
other
embraces
casual
furtively
can
way
relationship
dark
movie
stations
married
briefly
fantasy
inevitable
home
Thursday
grit
love
Milford
Life
small
environments
lunch
rooms
movie
car
inevitable
love
theaters
alleyways
affair
relationship
shop
awkward
extraordinary
private
Encounter
bridge
stream
deeper
never
refreshment
removed
ordinary
accidental
something
next
journey
private
meeting
other
exposure
feeling
time
innocent
Alec
intimate
lying
aid
simple
station's
lead
way
culminating
out
realistic
love
brief
development
friends
eye
middle
part
train
nothing
tragic
families
declarations
stop
returning
slowest
town
end
repressed
admit
country
reality
limits
David
Lean's
?
Brief
____________________
?
captures
____________________
at
its
most
____________________
.
It
depicts
the
emotional
____________________
between
two
____________________
-
aged
____________________
people
____________________
enough
to
know
their
____________________
is
____________________
but
too
____________________
to
____________________
themselves
,
like
they're
witnessing
the
____________________
,
most
beautiful
____________________
crash
in
____________________
.
____________________
Laura
Jesson
(
Celia
Johnson
)
and
____________________
Dr
.
Alec
Harvey
(
Trevor
Howard
)
move
____________________
in
the
____________________
of
British
____________________
,
hiding
their
____________________
from
their
____________________
and
the
____________________
society
,
____________________
to
hold
on
to
each
other
for
as
____________________
as
they
____________________
until
the
____________________
happens
.
They
are
just
two
____________________
people
who
live
____________________
lives
,
but
for
a
____________________
period
of
____________________
,
the
two
of
them
stand
on
the
____________________
of
something
____________________
.
Every
____________________
,
Laura
takes
the
____________________
to
the
nearby
____________________
of
____________________
to
____________________
and
go
see
a
____________________
matinee
.
One
day
on
her
return
trip
____________________
,
she
accidentally
gets
____________________
in
her
____________________
and
jumps
into
the
Milford
railway
station
____________________
room
to
try
to
get
it
____________________
,
only
for
Dr
.
____________________
to
come
to
her
____________________
.
The
two
of
them
____________________
ways
thinking
____________________
of
their
chance
____________________
,
but
after
that
____________________
and
____________________
keep
accidentally
____________________
into
each
____________________
.
Finally
,
the
two
have
____________________
and
catch
a
____________________
together
,
and
by
the
end
of
their
____________________
date
,
Alec
wants
to
meet
up
again
____________________
week
.
Soon
their
____________________
relationship
develops
into
____________________
much
____________________
and
more
____________________
as
the
two
____________________
to
each
____________________
that
they're
in
____________________
.
Eventually
,
Laura
starts
____________________
to
her
____________________
and
____________________
,
and
after
an
____________________
brush
with
complete
____________________
,
the
two
decide
to
____________________
their
____________________
knowing
that
they
can
____________________
be
____________________
.
Adapted
from
the
Noel
Coward
play
Still
____________________
,
?
Brief
Encounter
?
tells
a
____________________
love
story
,
but
it's
the
____________________
Lean
____________________
Laura
and
Alec's
____________________
affair
that
____________________
the
film
to
____________________
heights
.
Lean
follows
Coward's
____________________
and
____________________
the
film's
settings
mostly
to
____________________
confined
____________________
?
train
____________________
,
refreshment
____________________
,
movie
____________________
,
narrow
____________________
?
and
occasionally
an
empty
____________________
space
,
like
the
quiet
____________________
overlooking
a
small
____________________
in
the
____________________
,
so
as
to
create
the
____________________
that
Laura
and
Alec's
____________________
is
____________________
from
____________________
and
____________________
.
Lean
treats
these
____________________
like
they're
____________________
____________________
on
life's
____________________
,
____________________
places
you
can
____________________
occupy
before
____________________
to
____________________
.
Lean
also
makes
sure
to
depict
their
love's
____________________
gradual
____________________
,
beginning
with
____________________
encounters
and
____________________
glances
,
moving
up
to
____________________
jokes
and
____________________
conversations
,
and
finally
____________________
in
bold
____________________
and
passionate
____________________
.
But
even
more
importantly
,
Lean
depicts
their
____________________
as
____________________
.