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Brideshead Revisited (2008)
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Release Date:
25 July 2008 (USA)
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Tagline:
Love is not ours to control See more »
Plot:
A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War. Full summary » | Full synopsis »
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10 nominations
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(115 articles)
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Posterized: Dame Emma Thompson
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"Red Riding" Comes Home, Michael Caine Loads His Shotgun, and More New DVDs
(From IFC. 30 August 2010, 4:38 PM, PDT)
Posterized: Dame Emma Thompson
(From FilmExperience. 21 August 2010, 1:09 PM, PDT)
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Don't Visit This Brideshead
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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 | ... | Mr 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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Argentina:133 min | 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.See more »
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Factual errors: In Lord Marchmain's deathbed scene, Fr. Mackay imparts absolution while Charles Ryder and members of the family are in attendance. Absolution is never imparted in public in this way. The others would have been asked to step out. Moreover, the Latin form of the absolution given, although it is the correct traditional one, is badly mispronounced and contains several errors in the details of the Latin text.See more »
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Charles Ryder:[Internal monologue while walking out of Brideshead Castle] If you 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 I once so desperately wished to be. On second thought, one emotion remains my own. Alone among the borrowed and the second-hand, as pure as that faith from which I am still in flight: Guilt.
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Charles Ryder:[Internal monologue while walking out of Brideshead Castle] If you 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 I once so desperately wished to be. On second thought, one emotion remains my own. Alone among the borrowed and the second-hand, as pure as that faith from which I am still in flight: Guilt.
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Featured in "Siskel & Ebert: Episode dated 26 July 2008" (2008)See more »
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With the Rumba PlayingSee more »
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Is "Brideshead Revisited" based on a novel?Was the original novel a sequel?
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I have not yet read the book nor watched the previous adaptations and thus, I cannot comment on how truthful this film is to its predecessors. However, as a stand alone film this one fails miserably. Moving at a lethargic pace, high on melodrama with not much happening, this was a terribly boring film. The relationship between Julia and Charles looked very soap-opera like. Also the portrayal of the dysfunctional bond between Lady Marchmain and her children is poorly depicted and one never gets to the bottom of why these kids really hate her so much. Most of the performances are lacklustre except that of Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon and Ben Whishaw. I wonder why an actress of Thompson's calibre agreed to play such a role at this stage of her career. She had very little screen time and the role itself was clichéd. Gambon too suffers the same fate. Whishaw pretty much owns the first half of the film. Another thing, perhaps the only thing, to look forward to is the pleasant English countryside which is stunningly captured. But for that kind of thing, one can always watch travel documentaries. 'Brideshead Revisited' lacks soul. It's as simple as that.