Brideshead Revisited
- Director: Julian Jarrold
- Writer: Andrew Davies; Jeremy Brock
- Producer: Joanna Anderson; Robert Bernstein
CGiii Comment
Elegant...but, unsatisfying.
It may be the long-lasting influence of the TV series - difficult to improve on perfection.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
WWII. Charles Ryder, in his civilian life, rose out of his middle class London background, which includes being an atheist and having a distant relationship with his eccentric father, to become an up and coming artist. He is currently an army officer, who is stationed at a makeshift camp set up at Brideshead estate before imminently getting shipped into battle. The locale, which is not unfamiliar to him, makes him reminisce about what ended up being his doomed relationship with Brideshead's owners, the Flytes, an ostentatiously wealthy family. Charles first met Sebastian Flyte when they both were students at Oxford, where Sebastian surprisingly welcomed Charles into his circle of equally wealthy, somewhat stuck up and flamboyant friends. Charles ended up getting caught up in Sebastian's family struggles, where Sebastian used excessive alcohol to deal with the pain resulting from his family relationships.
Cast & Characters
Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder;
Thomas Morrison as Hooper;
David Barrass as Ship's Barber;
Anna Madeley as Celia Ryder;
Sarah Crowden as Lady Guest;
Stephen Carlile as English Lord;
Peter Barnes as American Professor;
Hayley Atwell as Julia Flyte;
Patrick Malahide as Edward Ryder;
Richard Teverson as Cousin Jasper;
Joseph Beattie as Anthony Blanche;
Ben Whishaw as Sebastian Flyte;
Roger Walker as Lunt;
Mark Field as Boy Mulcaster;
Mark Edel-Hunt as Oxford Student