The Browning Version

The Browning Version

How could he look on and say nothing ... it was his wife!

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Release Date

4/6/1951

Runtime

90 mins

Genres

Overview

Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

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A quietly devastating portrait of a man confronting the accumulated disappointments of his life during his final days at the institution that defined him. By turns aching and surprisingly moving, it finds grace in unexpected places.

Mood

MelancholicBittersweetContemplative

Themes

RedemptionIdentityBetrayalMortalityMemory

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticFormalist

Structure

Linear

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