91 mins |
Rated
PG (Adult themes)
Directed by David Lean
Starring Claude Rains, Ann Todd, Trevor Howard
Academy's Valentines Day screening for 2022 is the swooning, gorgeous 1949 David Lean melodrama THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS. A major influence on Paul Thomas Anderson's THE PHANTOM THREAD!
For the first of three films starring his bride-to-be, Ann Todd, the masterful David Lean adapted this dark, wistful drama from a popular H.G. Wells novel.
Todd plays Mary, a heartbroken wife torn between the security of her husband (Claude Rains) and her lasting love for a man she hasn't spoken to in nine years (Trevor Howard, in a role reminiscent of his star turn in Lean's BRIEF ENCOUNTER).
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Academy's Valentines Day screening for 2022 is the swooning, gorgeous 1949 David Lean melodrama THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS. A major influence on Paul Thomas Anderson's THE PHANTOM THREAD!
For the first of three films starring his bride-to-be, Ann Todd, the masterful David Lean adapted this dark, wistful drama from a popular H.G. Wells novel.
Todd plays Mary, a heartbroken wife torn between the security of her husband (Claude Rains) and her lasting love for a man she hasn't spoken to in nine years (Trevor Howard, in a role reminiscent of his star turn in Lean's BRIEF ENCOUNTER).