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Shopperworld - Brideshead Revisited - Complete Series [1981]
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List Price: £39.99
Our Price: £11.98
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Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, John Le Mesurier, John Gielgud, Jeremy Irons
Directed By: Charles Sturridge, Michael Lindsay-Hogg
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Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5037115294333
Format: Box set
Label: ITV DVD
Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: ITV DVD
Region Code: 2
Release Date: 2008-09-01
Running Time: 663
Studio: ITV DVD
Theatrical Release Date: 1981
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Summary: Television of the highest quality
Comment: This is a staggeringly good piece of TV drama which has justifiably become a classic. It's hard to imagine any producer today taking the time to explore a novel in the way this adaptation does, a full 11 episodes which allow the viewer to luxuriate in the story and thoroughly explore the characters. There has always been debate over whether there was a mythological "Golden Age of TV", but I think the early 1980s saw something quite remarkable at Granada Studios, at least in the field of period adaptations, and Brideshead might just be the pinnacle.
Evelyn Waugh's novel is a heady evocation of time and place, as well as an exploration of spirituality, and the series captures all this with consummate skill, from the glorious period detail to the brilliant script by John Mortimer. The acting is simply faultless, to be expected when talent like Irons and Andrews stands alongside veteran greats like Olivier, Gielgud and Claire Bloom.
In sum, I enjoyed this series immensely. Craft and class like this don't come together very often, more's the pity.
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Summary: The Beautiful and the Damned
Comment: This was 'watercooler' TV in the 80s,(it wouldn't be today, of course). When I first saw Brideshead all the interest - and the talk - seemed to be about Sebastian (the character and the actor playing him). New Romantics nicked the fashion ideas, families went to visit Castle Howard at the weekends. Redtops found a few half-witted Oxford students clutching teddybears and took photos to amuse their readers. And there was a sudden increase in the number of (Blair-like) conversions to Catholicism.
Watching it all again, I appreciated so much that hadn't at the time moved me - the romance between Charles and Julia, the sense of damnation hanging over the characters.
I've put Brideshead away now, but I am sure I'll revisit it again in another 27 years time, God willing.
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Summary: God's grace in action
Comment: Brideshead Revisited caused Mr. Waugh to suffer amongst his contempories. Why? Waugh writes: "It's theme - the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters - was perhaps persumptuoulsy large, but I make no apology for it." The modern world does not care about God, nor His grace, nor the fact that He loves all His creation: even a few funny toffs! This film does not avoid the issues of grace but stays true the novel's weird, wacky and wonderful ways. Thanks be to God!
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Summary: probably the best tv series ever
Comment: A tragic love story between two young university sudents, that take separate paths in their lives. (Although neither the writer nor the screen writer were willing to assume any gay content). Performances by Irons and Andrews are outstanding. Don't miss it. Directing is well guided and in the perfectly right tone, intimate and tender. I remember I saw it for the first time I was still a young boy, but now, twenty years later it is still modern and actual.
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Summary: ONe of the greatest pieces of TV - ever!
Comment: Quite simply this is brilliant. Producing the book as a TV series gave the director the opportunity to indulge in Waugh's lush and vivid text and whole sections of the book are quoted verbatim. And of course, in hindsight, the casting was inspired, with Jeremy Irons as Rider and Anthony Andrews as the rather beautiful Sebastian Flyte. But don't forget such cameo's as Nikolas Grace as the effete Anthony Blanche - masterful!
The film I understand, leaves a lot to be desired, so better to buy this AND read the book. You will regret buying neither.
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