Superb biography of the great director who for around thirty years was among the hottest directors in the world - as William Goldman wrote in 1982, there's always three hot directors and one of them is always David Lean - but who has become a little unfashionable now, I think. Probably due to boredom. How many times can you say Brief Encounter is good? And people got sick of boomers going on about Lawrence of Arabia.
Lean was a compelling figure - brilliant, cranky, hard to live with, charming, talented. Fabulous career. Great movies. Some duds. Book is excellently researched and illustrated.
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