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Wonderful and classic adoption of novel. Superb acting and filming, truly beautiful. The only minus is the picture quality is a little poor v
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This may have been an accclaimed television series - and said to have launched the careers of some great actors - but this story is boring!! Was not able to finish watching it.
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This is a book that was in our house as long a I can remember. I have read it many times.The first time I watched this on PBS was maybe the first time I began to get it. It’s a truly brilliant example of bringing a book to the screen. The acting and casting using a word perfect. Not a line not a glance is ever off. A masterpiece
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I bought this version because I only had the England version of it. I also saw pieces of the outtakes and interviews beforehand. I visited Castle Howeard where it was filmed. This version of this story is very true to Evelyn Waugh's novel and captured a generation by being the first Merchant Ivory before there was that genre. Nothing that succeeded it even compares. This stellar group of pure talent portray the elegant and dysfunctional English Catholic family the Marchmains at Brideshead and the people who love/hate them. The story centers around Sebastian (Athony Andrews) and Charles (Jeremy Irons)who find friendship and love. Andrews portrays the stunning and suave Sebastian, whose eventual alcholism provides a strangely redemptive descent from lordship to vagrancy. Claire Bloom plays Lady Marchmain, his manipulative and holy mother. Charles is the observer who gets caught in the Flyte's web, The story represents a dying British aristocracy in between the World Wars. The opulent Castle seems to decay with Sebastian over time. Icons Sir Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud play Sebastian and Charles' fathers respectively. They provide plenty of depth and commentary on the young men's relationships at Oxford and afterward. Charles falls in love with a copy of Sebastian in Julia (Diana Quick, Sebastian's sister. This writer will not be a spoiler....Read full review
Pleasantly surprised just how well this '70s British classic has held up over the years.
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