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For director Julian Jarrold (Becoming Jane), this sumptuous production represents a two-fold challenge: taking on a classic novel and a celebrated television production (Brideshead Revisited premiered on PBS in 1982). Thankfully, he's up to the task. Adapted by Andrew Davies (Pride and Prejudice) and Jeremy Brock (Mrs. Brown), Evelyn Waugh's 1945 text tracks the hard-won maturation of artist-turned-soldier Charles Ryder (Match Point's Matthew Goode). At the optimistic outset, the middle-class striver enters Oxford where he meets Sebastian Flyte (Perfume's Ben Whishaw), black-sheep scion of the Catholic Marchmain clan. Through his hedonistic friend, Ryder gets to know Flyte's sister, Julia (Hayley Atwell), and the dynamic changes. Were this a Jane Austen adaptation, Ryder's financial shortcomings would present the biggest obstacle, but the indomitable Lady Marchmain (Emma Thompson, cast against type) concentrates her disapproval on Ryder's atheism. Sebastian, on the other hand, wants Charles for himself; his drinking accelerates once he realizes Ryder loves Julia more. As World War I gives way to II, Ryder tangles with the Marchmains until forced to choose between freedom and compromise. In the end, comparing a two-hour movie to a 12-hour series makes as much sense as comparing a drawing to a sculpture. Both qualify as art, but one reveals more dimensions than the other. Like the series, Jarrold's narrative loses some steam once the focus shifts from Sebastian to Julia, but Goode's deft performance as Charles Ryder is just as riveting as that of Jeremy Irons before him. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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UK Import Blu-Ray/Region All pressing.

Please note the extras are in standard definition and in the PAL format so they will be unviewable on US Blu-Ray players.

Import Blu-Ray/Region All pressing. The unworldly undergraduate Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) is befriended by the flamboyant and aristocratic Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw), son of Lord and Lady Marchmain (Michael Gambon and Emma Thompson), and is thrilled by an invitation to Brideshead, the Marchmain s magnificent ancestral home. Beguiled by his surroundings, Charles is entranced by the opulent house and the glamorous world of this eccentric family. While Lord Marchmain lives in Venice with his mistress, Lady Marchmain runs the house, the failure of her marriage redoubling the fierce Catholic faith imposed on her children - Sebastian and the beautiful Julia (Hayley Atwell). As Charles s infatuation moves from the provocative Sebastian to the sophisticated Julia, it is a faith with which he finds himself increasingly at odds.

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Record Label 101 DISTRIBUTION
Format PAL
Dimensions: Length: 7.1" Width: 5.42" Height: 0.58"
Weight: 0.268125 lbs.
Binding BLU-Ray
Publisher 101 DISTRIBUTION
EAN 5051561000386

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	Not in the least true to the novel May 4, 2010
I have read the book and seen the monumental miniseries. This film has a not-so-hidden agenda that is anti-Catholic. In both the book and the miniseries Charles becomes a Catholic and understands. It was not that he wanted too much. He was in love with Sebastian. Sebastian drank, not because Charles loved Julia, but because he was lost as many were in his generation which was just coming out of the Victorian era. Emma Thompson plays Lady Marchmain as a gorgon. In both the other versions, Lady Marchmain is a suffering saint. The rest of the film's cast, except for Michael Gambon and Greta Schachi, are terribly miscast. The Julia looks like a drag-queen. Sebastian is supposed to be a beauty and that cannot be said for the film's actor. "Brideshead Revisited" is a marvelous novel about redemption in a tumultuous time of upheaval. Give it and the miniseries a chance. You will be inspired.

	Pales in comparison to the TV version Apr 3, 2010
There is no way a movie of this length can cover as much as the mini series did. I should just let it go, and not try to expect everything I enjoyed in the original. If I had come to this movie not having seen the original, I probably would have liked it more. I enjoyed seeing "the house" again. It was like revisiting an old friend. I'm very happy the producers used the same locations. Emma Thompson's performance was a bit distrubing. I could see the wheels turning in her head as she befriended Charles Ryder. All in all, I will always like costume dramas. I watch them more for the atmosphere, and the place they take me inside my own head. Even though this move didn't fill in as many pages as I would have liked, I'm glad I bought it.

	get the Kindle e-book instead. Mar 20, 2010
Speaking of bad copies, last night, i saw the DVD of this new movie version of Brideshead; and it'a a very poor copy of the original movie with Jeremy Irons et al. Don't go there !!!!! Instead, just download the Kindle version and run with it. The new movie doesn't hold a candle to the e-book. For a couple of bucks, you get Brideshead Revisted on your Kindle !!! You get Waugh's classic story dropped into your mind. Just read the story and count yourself lucky to be hanging out with Charles Ryder and a bunch of religiously whacked out pre-War Upper class Brits....back when religion mattered.

	ANOTHER IN A LONG LINE OF POOR QUALITY REMAKES Mar 5, 2010
Watch it If you must, but then immediately rent or purchase the original from the 1970's. First trying to cram a Thirteen hour mini series into a two hour film is just Looney. second the makers of this poor quality remake completely missed the many intricate subtleties of Waugh's Novel.Brideshead was most certainly not a condemnation of Catholicism, nor was the main focus Sebastian's and Charles affair.All the subtle nuances of the many relationships were completely lost in this remake.Antoine's complex character is reduced to a few poorly written lines.In the original, Antoine's character was the one person out side of Sebastian's own family that new him the longest and the best.Ok enough I could go on paragraph after paragraph on the short comings of this remake.You want to know which one is best ? Read the novel ,then watch both.I am sure you will see that the 1970's production is superior in everyway.

	Very good Mar 2, 2010
I thought this adaptation of Brideshead was great. The acting was superb, the script was decent and the sets were lovely.

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