A Handful of Dust

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Teddy B @RT24440346 03/09/2025 Incredibly depressing. No sympathy for the entitled Brenda. Tony got a raw deal. Nice scenery and costumes. See more Glafira Regina O @Glafira_Regina 03/04/2025 The only thing that saves the film is eternal beauty of Kristin Thomas. The rest of it is an absolute dumb nonsence See more Alain E @AlainE 02/28/2025 In a way a condemnation of British aristocracy. The emotionally restrained heir of a rich family in its last legs is in an unsatisfactory marriage. His wife soon finds more excitement hooking up with a vacuous young man. Their young son is raised principally by a nanny until he gets killed in a hunting accident. They decide to separate , but disagree on the financial terms. The husband, on the spur of a moment, decides to join an explorer of the Brazilian jungle and ends up imprisoned by an illiterate elderly colonist who is forcing him to read loud the complete works of Charles Dickens. Believed lost, his heirs raise a small obelisk in his memory. So, actually a pretty solid monument of dust. See more Geraldine T @Geralbean 02/18/2025 I have always loved this film. Understated but visceral attack on the venal characters that both inhabit and attach themselves like bloodsucking leeches to money and title in the British aristocracy. See more Fong Kok Hoong F @RT29722865 12/02/2016 The disintegration of an upper-class marriage and a strange encounter with a man who likes Dickens in a Brazilian forest make no heads nor tails in this adaptation of British writer Evelyn Waugh's semi-autobiographical novel. See more 10/28/2013 A beautifully shot adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh classic. However, the acting, other than that from Scott Thomas and Dench, is a little lightweight. The characterisation is weak, to the extent that I found myself strangely detached from the main tragedy. Sir Alec Guinness has a relatively small part but carries off his role with aplomb. It's a decent British film with some very recognisable faces, for example, John Junkin. Worth a watch. See more Read all reviews

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