Review by Griffin-Mill

David Lean's moving, heart-stoppingly gorgeous companion piece to Brief Encounter combines Katharine Hepburn's finest, most human performance with stunning cinematography and a dizzying, romantic screenplay touched with just the right amount of worldly bitterness. Hepburn is continually dazzling and the screenplay is just cynical enough to have the ring of truth.

Funny, beautiful and often heartbreaking, the film is a career peak for Hepburn (even if you find her to be mannered and irritating in other roles, it's difficult not to whole-heartedly sympathize with her here) and one of Lean's finest hours.