Both have a headlong exuberance, are filled with caustic satire and ultimately show impetuous romance giving way to hard-headed realism.
Panels showing a night spent stealing away to a club, a tender waltz or a kiss to mark the start of a romance give the story a sweet joyfulness.
Steven Organ, a film producer who runs the Davidlean.com website and edited David Lean: Interviews, which was published last month, said the film's romance gives it a predominantly female appeal, compared with the male appeal of his previous two films.
What initially seems to be a whip-smart contemporary version of an Alan Bennett Talking Head turns into something far darker as romance gives way to reality and Leah's life is stained in many different ways.
We never get a sense of a mighty world undergoing radical change as an age of mythic figures and romance gives way to an era of efficient, practiced bureaucrats and politicians.
His romance gives the impression of playing out in a perpetual present, whether it is dancing graceful rings around its characters with a flyweight camera or freezing a frame (imperceptibly, for a heartbeat or two) in an attempt to preserve the moment.
How did romance give way to an evening wearing slipper socks and watching TV?
Carolyn Jones is a knockout as a fallen thrush who would like to love him; their aborted romance gives the pic its finest scenes".
Hence the rise of adventure honeymoons that combine thrills with romance, giving couples the chance to climb mountains, sleep under the stars in Africa or go kayaking amongst whales.
Is Catalan, for instance, Ibero-Romance or Gallo-Romance, given that its medieval literary language was close to Provençal?
