Brideshead Revisited

United Kingdom

1981

659 Min

Color

1.37:1

English

Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
1
2
3
4
5

DIR Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Charles Sturridge

SCR John Mortimer, Evelyn Waugh, Derek Granger, Charles Sturridge

CAST Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick, Roger Milner, Simon Jones, Phoebe Nicholls, Claire Bloom, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Stéphane Audran, Jenny Runacre, Richard Hope

Two young men meet at Oxford. Charles Ryder, though of no family or money, becomes friends with Sebastian Flyte when Sebastian throws up in his college room through an open window. He then invites Charles to dinner after his teddy bear Aloysius ‘refuses to talk to him’ unless he is forgiven. Charles becomes involved with Sebastian’s family, Catholic peers of the realm in Protestant England. The story is told in flashback as Charles, now an officer in the British Army, is moved with his company to an English country house that he discovers to be Brideshead, Sebastian’s family home where Charles has a series of memories of his youth and young manhood, his loves, life, and a journey of faith and anguish. —IMDb

Wall

Displaying 3 wall posts.

see all

Danny Bailey

19Feb12

One of the most perfect flawless masterpieces of the small screen. Irons, Andrews, Olivier, and company put a lot of gusto into this 13 hour production that leaves you wanting more.

Stu Witmer likes this

richmondhill

18Dec11

A gloriously epic wallow in the conflicting plates of repressive English class and suppressive Catholicism. The shift from sunny carefree Oxford summers to the melancholic descent into the Winter of Ryder’s life is magnificently conveyed (It takes almost a season in itself to reach that point). Its monumental reputation is deserved although the accumulated baggage of wistful conservatism over the years is regrettable

Roscoe

15Oct10

Very fine at its best, self-indulgent at its worst. Fight through to the final episode to see Lord Olivier's performance, one of the finest he ever did.