Brussels Philharmonic joins forces with Cineflagey: during the Rachmaninov Festival, each festival day you can enjoy a timeless film classic featuring Rachmaninov's masterful music as the centerpiece. -----After a chan ...
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Brussels Philharmonic joins forces with Cineflagey: during the Rachmaninov Festival, each festival day you can enjoy a timeless film classic featuring Rachmaninov's masterful music as the centerpiece.
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After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor and a suburban housewife begin a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair. With its evocatively fog-enshrouded setting, swooning Rachmaninov score, and pair of remarkable performances (Johnson was nominated for an Oscar), this film, directed by David Lean and based on Noël Coward’s play Still Life deftly explores the thrill, pain, and tenderness of an illicit romance, and has influenced many a cinematic brief encounter since its release.