adultery Archives - cléo https://cleojournal.com/tag/adultery/ a journal of film and feminism Tue, 21 Feb 2017 01:13:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 The Impossible Love of David Lean’s Brief Encounter https://cleojournal.com/2015/11/24/grace-sin-the-impossible-love-of-david-leans-brief-encounter/ Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:37:15 +0000 https://cleojournal.com/?p=1438 You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’  But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Matthew 5:27-28) Given that David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945) is about an affair, the film opens with something of […]

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