Brideshead Revisited (2008)
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Cast
as Charles Ryder
as Sebastian Flyte
as Lady Marchmain
as Julia Flyte
as Lord Marchmain
as Bridey Flyte
as Cordelia Flyte
as Mr. Edward Ryder
as Cara
as Rex Mottram
as Hooper
as ship's barber
as Anthony Blanche
as Cousin Jasper
as Lady guest
as Celia Ryder
as English lord
as American professor
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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.
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.
If you're in the market for a veddy British drama and miss seeing Emma Thompson in her natural environment, Brideshead Revisited is a worthwhile two-hour meditation on faith (and the lack thereof).
Yes, it's a compressed version, but I found it very enjoyable.
If it's a choice between the movie's 135 minutes or the 659 minutes of the miniseries, I'd say it's no choice at all. The shorter version is the one that seems long.
Audience Reviews for Brideshead Revisited
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.
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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.
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Gruesome Hatchet Job of My Favourite Novel. "Utterly Macarbe".
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| Sebastian Flyte: | I should like to bury something precious, in every place I've been happy. And then when I was old, and ugly and miserable, I could come back, and dig it up, and remember. |
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