SHREWSBURY FILM

Film Notes: Brief Encounter

DirectorDavid Lean
CountryUK
Year1945

In an effort to reduce our paper usage, we stopped offering printed copies of our popular Film Notes at our screenings.

Instead, we are encouraging our members to read the Film Notes online. For those who wish to do so, it is still possible to print these pages prior to the film.

Alternatively, if you want to read the notes just before or just after the film, and also minimise your paper consumption, then you can scan the QR code to your phone and then download the webpage.

Our Next Film

Friday 5 December 2025

La Chimera

15 | Italy | 2023 | Italian, subtitled | 126 mins

Director: Alice Rohrwacher
A young archaeologist joins tomb raiders in 1980s Italy while haunted by the memory of a lost lover. “La Chimera” blends magical realism and romance with a critique of greed and longing, exploring what we dig up—literally and emotionally—in pursuit of what we’ve lost.
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An intoxicating blend of myth and longing. - Empire
A beautifully elusive fable. - Time
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