“David Lean, who’d later enjoy great renown for his epics, builds this story out of tiny pieces: sips of brandy, cups of tea, a crossword puzzle, a sewing basket. All these things that would never merit remembering if your heart wasn’t breaking at the time. Lean’s storytelling is stingy with neither its attention nor its sympathy. Moral judgment is absent from the film. In its place is a gentle curiosity, open to all of the positive and negative consequences that infidelity might yield." ~ Alice Stoehr
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