Brideshead Revisited
Although he aspires to become an artist, middle-class Charles Ryder reads history at the University of Oxford, where he befriends the flamboyant and wealthy Lord Sebastian Flyte. Sebastian's mother, Lady Marchmain, strongly disapproves of his life-style, especially his heavy drinking. When Sebastian takes him home to visit his nanny, Charles is enthralled by the grandeur of the Marchmain family estate, known as Brideshead, and he is entranced by its residents.
24 February 1933, Hertfordshire, England, UK
24 March 1945, Berkshire, England, UK
5 October 1942, Sneinton, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
1978, England, UK
1955, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
16 September 1974, London, England, UK
1 January 1983, Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK
19 April 1978, Bath, Somerset, England, UK
22 December 1944, Bristol, England, UK
31 August 1967, Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
April 04, 2009
slow and beautiful, rather than intense, dramatic and insightful
January 25, 2009
Occasionally interesting, always beautiful and regularly tedious, the film attempts to capture a time and a feeling yet it ultimately fails to provide the depth needed to make it wholly successful.
August 01, 2008
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.
November 09, 2008
The events in the film felt rushed and overly obvious, as if Harry Potter's adopted parents dressed him in an "Ask me about wizardry" t-shirt before Hagrid ever turned up.
July 28, 2008
Yes, it's a compressed version, but I found it very enjoyable.
August 01, 2008
Thompson, though, is marvelous; with understated precision and grace, she makes every word count. Also excellent is Michael Gambon.
August 14, 2009
A bleak and often befuddling 2-hour-15-minute disappointment.
July 31, 2008
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).
March 05, 2009
it still has the high-class dramatic feel you'd expect from something you would have watched on PBS twenty years ago
October 03, 2008
Performances are good - Thompson and Gambon impress - but the insipid music is dreadful.
January 07, 2009
Certainly passable, but less than spectacular, Brideshead Revisited is an authentic and decent adaptation of a well-known novel, but nothing more.
