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Brideshead Revisited (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 18 Fresh: 14  Rotten:4 Average Rating: 6.5/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Synopsis: A provocative and suspenseful drama, Brideshead Revisited tells an evocative story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in the pre-WWII era. In the film, Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode, Match Point, The Lookout) becomes entranced with the noble Marchmain family, first through the... A provocative and suspenseful drama, Brideshead Revisited tells an evocative story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in the pre-WWII era. In the film, Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode, Match Point, The Lookout) becomes entranced with the noble Marchmain family, first through the charming and provocative Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer), and then his sophisticated sister, Julia (Hayley Atwell, Cassandra’s Dream and the upcoming The Duchess). The rise and fall of Charles’ infatuations reflect the decline of a decadent era in England between the wars. Academy Award-winner Emma Thompson co-stars as Lady Marchmain.

The film, based on Evelyn Waugh’s acclaimed novel is adapted for the screen by multiple BAFTA Award-winner Andrew Davies (Bridget Jones Diary, Bleak House) and Jeremy Brock (The Last King of Scotland) and directed by Julian Jarrold (Becoming Jane). --© Miramax Films
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Genre: Dramas

Starring: Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Ben Whishaw, Matthew Goode, Hayley Atwell

Director: Julian Jarrold
Screenwriter: Jeremy Brock, Andrew Davies
Producer: Kevin Loader, Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae
Composer: Adrian Johnston

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2.5/4

Thompson, Goode and Atwell make for fine screen company, despite [Emma]Thompson's arguable miscasting.

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07/24/08
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
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3/5

Actually lives up to its pedigree, rendered lively with gorgeous scenery and a tart, droll script.

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07/24/08
Matt Pais
Metromix.com
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3/4

[A] lush, bold, intellectual treatment of the Evelyn Waugh novel about Catholicism and nonconformity, which ventures where the fabled '80s miniseries couldn't.

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07/24/08
John Anderson
Newsday
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You have to admire the way it refrains from seizing the day for a postmodern lecture on the perils of fundamentalism, and confines itself to the disturbing vision of Evelyn Waugh.

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07/24/08
Ella Taylor
L.A. Weekly
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Brideshead Revisited is opulent and watchable, yet except for Thompson's acting, it's missing something -- a grander, more ambivalent vision of the England it depicts dying out.

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07/24/08
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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4/5

A sophisticated and well-acted screen version of Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel about the toxic fallout from a Catholicism of sin, sacrifice, guilt, and otherworldliness.

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07/24/08
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice
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3/6

If you can let go of your memories of the novel and the outstanding 1981 miniseries, this is enjoyable enough as tasteful melodrama.

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07/24/08
Hank Sartin
Time Out New York
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The film version of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited transforms one of the quintessential novels of the 20th century into one of the grandest, most enriching films of 2008.

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07/23/08
Rex Reed
New York Observer
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I recommend the brilliant pessimism of this film to all my readers, who I hope will appreciate the exquisitely rendered truthfulness of the narrative.

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07/23/08
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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A very handsome period picture....But it's an almost perversely wrongheaded adaptation of the book.

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07/23/08
Frank Swietek
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I cannot think of another screen adaptation that treats its source with a like indifference, almost contempt.

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07/23/08
Thomas Peyser
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
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A handsomely appointed but oddly unaffecting adaptation.

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07/21/08
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
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2.5/4

This new Brideshead takes a step in the right direction, but it's time some radical writer or filmmaker dared to leave out the dim Julia charade and let Charles and Sebastian play out their Isherwood/Auden Oxford love match to its full.

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07/21/08
Dan Callahan
Slant Magazine
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Allowing auds sufficient retro-aristo-lifestyle sumptuousness for their dollar, yet exhibiting admirable, intelligent directorial restraint, this Brideshead is mainstream arthouse fare par excellence.

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07/18/08
Dennis Harvey
Variety
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There's room for more than one Brideshead in this far less glamorous day and age.

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07/18/08
David Ansen
Newsweek
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Will disappoint viewers who know Waugh's writing or the Granada production, while a younger audience unfamiliar with either won't care enough about rich Brits between the wars.

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07/16/08
Rex Roberts
Film Journal International
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Smart, handsome film-making without the usual summer panoply of special effects and computer generative industry, a picture graced by solid acting and a rich empathy with people who find themselves through religion rather than wealth.

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07/16/08
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve
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3/4

For those with an affinity for this kind of movie -- and you know whether this applies to you -- Brideshead Revisited is a worthy, although not superior, motion picture.

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07/15/08
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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B-

The theme of individual powerlessness in the face of family, religion and other forces is dusted off in this version, and while the production design is impeccable, helmer Jarrold is only sporadically effective in illuminating the novel's dramatic issues

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06/29/08
Emanuel Levy
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