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Suspenseful and beautifully mounted, Brideshead Revisited does an able job condensing Evelyn Waugh's novel.
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Even if the material is familiar, even if it has been done well before, there is room in a great book for a new interpretation. Oct 31, 2008 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Even if the material is familiar, even if it has been done well before, there is room in a great book for a new interpretation.
Paul Byrnes
Directed by Julian Jarrold from a script by Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock, this new adaptation adroitly condenses Waugh's plot while eliminating or reversing most of his intended meanings. Oct 24, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Directed by Julian Jarrold from a script by Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock, this new adaptation adroitly condenses Waugh's plot while eliminating or reversing most of his intended meanings.
Jake Wilson
Kingsley Amis once said his difficulty with Brideshead Revisted was not that these people were behaving badly, but boringly. On the page, that isn't true, but here on the big screen, it turns out to be an insuperable problem. Oct 3, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Kingsley Amis once said his difficulty with Brideshead Revisted was not that these people were behaving badly, but boringly. On the page, that isn't true, but here on the big screen, it turns out to be an insuperable problem.
Peter Bradshaw
Performances are good - Thompson and Gambon impress - but the insipid music is dreadful. Oct 3, 2008 | Rating: 3/6 | Full Review…
Performances are good - Thompson and Gambon impress - but the insipid music is dreadful.
Thompson, though, is marvelous; with understated precision and grace, she makes every word count. Also excellent is Michael Gambon. Aug 1, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Thompson, though, is marvelous; with understated precision and grace, she makes every word count. Also excellent is Michael Gambon.
Connie Ogle
What's missing from Goode's performance and from the film as whole is the layer upon layer of accumulated motive -- the gradual evolution of a man's complex desires and even-more-complicated fears. Aug 1, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
What's missing from Goode's performance and from the film as whole is the layer upon layer of accumulated motive -- the gradual evolution of a man's complex desires and even-more-complicated fears.
Amy Biancolli
Director Julian Jarrold... has made a beautiful film that marvelously captures the heady atmosphere of the novel and coaxed compelling performances from his three young leads. Dec 12, 2018 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Director Julian Jarrold... has made a beautiful film that marvelously captures the heady atmosphere of the novel and coaxed compelling performances from his three young leads.
Kelly Jane Torrance
Director Julian Jarrold and screenwriters Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock seem to have no idea how to interpret their source material. Oct 10, 2018 | Full Review…
Director Julian Jarrold and screenwriters Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock seem to have no idea how to interpret their source material.
Megan Basham
This Brideshead is less a dramatization than what you might call a melodramatization. Aug 29, 2018 | Full Review…
This Brideshead is less a dramatization than what you might call a melodramatization.
Daniel Mendelsohn
It's easy to overstate the varied accomplishments here because of how badly it might have gone. That it landed somewhere between adequate and excellent is satisfying enough. Aug 23, 2017 | Full Review…
It's easy to overstate the varied accomplishments here because of how badly it might have gone. That it landed somewhere between adequate and excellent is satisfying enough.
Justin Stewart
Unfortunately, the film doesn't linger at Oxford for long, and the remaining point on the love triangle-Sebastian's sister, Julia-is always present, but only fleetingly interesting. Aug 21, 2017 | Full Review…
Unfortunately, the film doesn't linger at Oxford for long, and the remaining point on the love triangle-Sebastian's sister, Julia-is always present, but only fleetingly interesting.
Annie Wagner
A bleak and often befuddling 2-hour-15-minute disappointment. Aug 14, 2009 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
A bleak and often befuddling 2-hour-15-minute disappointment.
Mike Scott
This is an interesting yet certainly not memorable drama with fine performances and a strong story about family, religion and faith in the context of the decadence of British aristocracy prior to WWII, and it may leave you thinking about it long after the film is over.
Super Reviewer
Dull, slow moving but visually beautiful. Uncharismatic leads are blown off the screen whenever Emma Thompson is on, displaying her range by playing a markedly different character than usual and as always doing it masterfully. Once she's gone from the scene its just pretty pictures with people you neither really like or care about.
Gruesome Hatchet Job of My Favourite Novel. "Utterly Macarbe".
Brideshead Revisited is a lovely period piece drama set in 1920's UK. The very talented actress Emma Thopmson palys the matriarch of a very wealthy family whom owns Brideshead. A young msn named Chrales Ryder becomes friends with the son of this family and quickly gets entangled in the intrique of this family and home. This movie is worthy of seeing. A very well suited cast and well done by all.
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