The Passionate Friends (1949)

Directed by

David Lean

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 62 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married woman cannot end an affair with another man. She is torn between the two men in her life.

melancholictenseromanticfrustratingnostalgicbittersweetformalsmooth-paced

What happens

The Passionate Friends (also known as One Woman's Story) is a 1949 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean and starring Ann Todd, Claude Rains and Trevor Howard. It was written by Eric Ambler, Stanley Haynes and Lean, based on The Passionate Friends: A Novel (1913) by H. G. Wells. It describes a love triangle in which a woman cannot give up her affair with another man. The film was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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