 "Brief Encounter" serves as a plot device in "Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont", a 2005 US-produced comedy-drama film based on the 1971 novel by Elizabeth Taylor.The aging widow Mrs. Palfrey reminisces that "Brief Encounter" was her and her deceased husband's favorite film, which leads her young friend, the writer Ludovic Meyer, to meet and bond with his eventual girlfriend.In the 2012 "Sight & Sound" polls of the world's greatest films, "Brief Encounter" received the votes of 11 critics and three directors.