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Brief Encounter, Empire Cinema review " poignant, hilarious revival by Heather Neill

Emma Rice's lauded stage version of the film returns with charm and inventiveness intactIt would be so easy to make fun of the 1945 Noel Coward/ David Lean film in which, famously, nothing happens between two guilt-ridden married lovers. That oh-so-British middle class restraint, those flet, perfectly enunciated vowels, the overwhelming romantic rush of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2 " isn't it all a bit OTT,…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:50PM on March 11, 2018

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