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25 July 2008 (USA)
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Love is not ours to control more
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A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War. full summary | add synopsis
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Catholic
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WWII
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Alcoholism
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10 nominations
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(57 articles)
Thompson Writes Screenplays To Avoid Typecasting
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Differing Religious Convictions Driving People Apart
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Matthew Goode | ... | Charles Ryder | |
| Thomas Morrison | ... | Hooper | |
| David Barrass | ... | Ship's Barber | |
| Anna Madeley | ... | Celia Ryder | |
| Sarah Crowden | ... | Lady Guest | |
| Stephen Carlile | ... | English Lord | |
| Peter Barnes | ... | American Professor | |
| Hayley Atwell | ... | Julia Flyte | |
| Patrick Malahide | ... | Edward Ryder | |
| Richard Teverson | ... | Cousin Jasper | |
| Joseph Beattie | ... | Anthony Blanche | |
| Ben Whishaw | ... | Sebastian Flyte | |
| Roger Walker | ... | Lunt | |
| Mark Field | ... | Boy Mulcaster | |
| Mark Edel-Hunt | ... | Oxford Student |
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Rated PG-13 for some sexual content.
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USA:133 min
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Filmed in summer 2007, one of the rainiest summers on record in England. The crew suffered rainfall at nearly every location, and even had to contend with rain while on location in Venice.
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Anachronisms: The Venetian drummers have instruments fitted with Mylar drumheads (Remo Pinstripes) that were not manufactured before WWII. Calfskin heads or ones that resembled calfskin would have been more appropriate for the time.
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Charles Ryder: [Internal monologue while walking out of Brideshead Castle] If you'd asked me now who I am? The only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name: Charles Ryder. For the rest: My loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires;I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those others we desperately wish to be. On second thought; one emotion remains my own. Alone among the borrowed and the second-hand. As pure as that faith of which I'm still in flight:... Guild.
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Charles Ryder: [Internal monologue while walking out of Brideshead Castle] If you'd asked me now who I am? The only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name: Charles Ryder. For the rest: My loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires;I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those others we desperately wish to be. On second thought; one emotion remains my own. Alone among the borrowed and the second-hand. As pure as that faith of which I'm still in flight:... Guild.
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Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (2008-07-26)" (2008)
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Rumba
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A Note Regarding SpoilersIs "Brideshead Revisited" based on a novel?
Was the original novel a sequel?
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No love story can be altogether gratifying in which the central choices are decided by the mother of the woman in love, even less, when she is the mother of both lovers, and has faith that she is protecting their everlasting spirits. That is what seems to be the predicament in Evelyn Waugh's novel, now adapted into a stagnant film in which one is not invited to feel or react due to its own lack of feeling or solidly portrayed consequence.
This film version focuses on forbidden love and the death of purity, set before WWII. Matthew Goode, who was excellent as the villain in The Lookout, becomes spellbound with a noble family, first because of his friendship with a charming, provocative, apparently homosexual contemporary, and then his sister. The fluctuation of Goode's obsessions suggest the decay of a self-indulgent upper crust in England flanked by the two World Wars, related in the course of his recurring stays at the Brideshead estate. What's more fundamental to Waugh's story is the harsh Catholicism of the family, as imposed by their matriarch, played by Emma Thompson, the high point of the film by far. Their religious beliefs are confronted by the son's homosexuality, the daughter's adulterous liaison with Goode, and Goode's atheism.
There are two curious fathers in the film. Michael Gambon is one, still legitimately married sure enough, but is ostracized, living in a Venetian palazzo with his mistress, Greta Scacchi in an unexpected comeback. Goode's father is a definite oddball who lives enclosed in a London house and seemingly favors playing chess with himself to talking to his son.
The main character is a penniless, virtually parentless youth drifting through an alien social system. Goode plays him featurelessly really, a nondescript motor for the other characters. Ben Whishaw steals all of his scenes as the gay son. The daughter could definitely have been portrayed more warily. The actress, Hayley Atwell makes the most of her I suppose, but why would she marry the revolting and unbearable suitor instead of Goode?
I am sure that the reason this film is not very effective at all is because so much background and source material is condensed and maybe sacrificed into such a shorter running time. But why are so many other adaptations effective in spite of this factor?