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The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
It may seem obvious and a journalistic knee-jerk to compare the first film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited with the “classic” television series of the Eighties, that is to say with something made 27 years ago and therefore irrelevant to much of the film’s audience. But when the movie’s chief failings are a lack of immersion in its milieu, and particularly a lack of atmosphere, then...
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First Drafts (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
... adviser on the end credits — I promise you it’s worth waiting for and rather unexpected.4) Julian Jarrold (who directed ‘BH’) is going to be the greatest director of chocolate ads the world has ever seen. You know all those ads where a man chases some beautiful woman down endless corridors and then finds her and then you get a caption like ‘All because the lady loves…’? Well, ‘BH’...
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The blog Film (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
You review: Brideshead RevisitedThat wasn't in the book! ... A scene from Brideshead revisitedOne might have expected this new adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel to be ripe territory for readers of the right-wing press, with its ornate period setting and fascination with the privileged classes.Brideshead Revisited Release: 2008 Country: UK Cert (UK): 12A Runtime: 132 mins Directors: Julian...
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DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Brideshead Revisited (12a) Dir. Julian Jarrold Reviewed by Matt Adcock Nobody does the lives and loves of posh totty quite like Evelyn Waugh in his various classic books and in Brideshead Revisited we have a poignant story of forbidden love and lost innocence set in England prior to the Second World War. I grew up watching the 1980’s TV series version starring Laurence Olivier,Diana Quick...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
... The yarn itself is rather thin, but the spinning is out of this world.Brideshead Revisited (12A)(Julian Jarrold, 2008, UK) Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Emma Thompson, Hayley Atwell. 133 mins.Streamlined and polished for a new generation, this heated tale of 1930s class/faith boundaries at least distinguishes itself from the previous versions, even if the story gets compressed and distorted...
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Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Sadly, director Julian Jarrold (Becoming Jane) doesn't provide one. Still, there are many decent aspects to this scrumptious forbidden love triangle that sees desperate-to-fit-in 1920s Oxford grad Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) seduced first by the louche aristo lifestyle of his new teddy-bear-hugging friend Sebastian (a wonderful performance by Ben Wishaw), then by Sebastian's busty sister...
