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Brideshead Revisited - Complete Series [1981]
from ITV DVD
starring Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, John Le Mesurier, John Gielgud, Jeremy Irons
directed by Charles Sturridge, Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Features:

• Box set
• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Television of the highest quality
  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,... more info

• The Beautiful and the Damned
  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.
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• God's grace in action
  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!

• probably the best tv series ever
  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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