The film guru Michael Smythe introduced the film Brief Encounter, a milestone in British cinema.
‘A Brief encounter’ in Castlereagh.
More than 60 seniors (and not-so seniors) turned out for Castlereagh Art’s second installation in the ‘Golden Oldies Movie Night’ series. Having sent the audience home singing and dancing last time with ‘Singing in the Rain’, we slowed things down this month with Lean’s classic ‘A Brief Encounter’. Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard fall into a spiral of love, temptation, fulfilment and eventual emptiness through a chance meeting in the train station.
Robin Colvill had played Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 2 in the First Friday concert last week, and I had been humming it since, wondering where I had heard it before… I was soon reminded as the film began. The sound track gives a great sense of gravitas to the piece, and Noel Coward’s writing, the imagined confession of Laura to her middle of the road husband, is a simple yet beautifully observed premise which carries the brief, ‘Brief Encounter’ (1 hour and 25 mins) throughout. The piece is an adaptation to screen from Coward’s one act ‘Still Life’.
The feedback was incredible with many asking that this become a main-stay in the council arts program, but that may have had a lot to do with the popcorn and icecream!
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