Austenprose (Free subscription) | yesterday
... different story than the BBC miniseries of the 1980’s or the Evelyn Waugh novel. Her co-stars Hayley Atwell (Mansfield Park 2007) and Joseph Beatie (Mansfield Park 2007) were also excellent, and the movie is well worth renting the DVD of just for the locations and fabulous costumes. Even though Matthew Macfayden went all Byronic on us as Mr. Darcy in the 2005 movie adaptation of Pride...
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
... the desired offspring for the Duke, who begins having an affair with her best friend, Bess Foster (Hayley Atwell).That, in turn, leads to Georgiana to having an affair with her childhood friend, the rising politician Charles Grey (Dominic Cooper from "Mamma Mia!").The script, courtesy of three credited screenwriters (including director Saul Dibb), basically states that the well-liked...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
... impunity.And as she wowed the crowds and played at politics, he took a tumble for her best friend (Hayley Atwell of ) and forced Georgiana into an arrangement that had to remind her, every day, of a woman's place in that society -- as property, so wholly without rights that a husband could beat her with a stick, just so long as that stick "is smaller than his thumb."Saul Bibb's gorgeously...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... fell to third.Literary adaptation Brideshead Revisited, starring Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw and Hayley Atwell, was the second highest new entry at number eight.Mamma Mia! continues to attract UK cinemagoers after 13 weeks on release, having climbed from fifth to fourth, while holocaust drama The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas performed impressively, jumping one place to sixth despite...
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
... mins Directors: Julian Jarrold Cast: Ben Whishaw, Emma Thompson, Felicity Jones, Greta Scacchi, Hayley Atwell, Matthew Goode, Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide And yet pretty much every critic has some sort of problem with this new version of Brideshead Revisited, from the textual tinkerings of screenwriters Andrew Brock and Jeremy Davies to the ineffectual performances of everyone...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Last Modified: 04 Oct 2008Source: ITN The film based on Evelyn Waugh's classic 1945 novel, Brideshead Revisited is heading to cinemas for the first time.Set in the 1930s the film stars Matthew Goode (Charles Ryder), Ben Whishaw (Sebastian Flyte), Hayley Atwell (Julia Flyte) and Emma Thompson (Lady Marchmain).The plot centres around the character of Charles Ryder who whilst studying at...
eFilmCritic (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
... married until her death, but he had a lifelong affair with her best friend Lady Elizabeth Foster (Hayley Atwell), whom he later married.The Duchess herself had turbulent relationship with the young Charles Grey (Dominic Cooper). As Prime Minister from 1830 to 1834, Grey would later be instrumental in spearheading the , which widened the voter pool in the UK and enabled underrepresented...
