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Brideshead Revisited
- Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg; Charles Sturridge
- Writer: Evelyn Waugh; John Mortimer
CGiii Comment
A perfect adaptation.
Beautifully played and paced.
Simply, unmissable.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Two young men meet at Oxford. Charles Ryder, though of no family or money, becomes friends with Sebastian Flyte when Sebastian throws up in his college room through an open window. He then invites Charles to lunch after his teddy bear Aloysius 'refuses to talk to him' unless he is forgiven. Charles becomes involved with Sebastian's family, Catholic peers of the realm in Protestant England. The story is told in flashback as Charles, now an officer in the British Army, is moved with his company to an English country house that he discovers to be Brideshead, Sebastian's family home where Charles has a series of memories of his youth and young manhood, his loves, life, and a journey of faith and anguish.
Cast & Characters
Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder;
Diana Quick as Julia Flyte;
Roger Milner as Wilcox;
Phoebe Nicholls as Cordelia Flyte;
Simon Jones as Lord Brideshead 'Bridey';
Anthony Andrews as Sebastian Flyte;
Charles Keating as Rex Mottram;
Claire Bloom as Lady Marchmain;
John Gielgud as Edward Ryder