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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
It may seem obvious and a journalistic knee-jerk to compare the first film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited with the “classic” television series of the Eighties, that is to say with something made 27 years ago and therefore irrelevant to much of the film’s audience. But when the movie’s chief failings are a lack of immersion in its milieu, and particularly a lack of atmosphere, then...
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The blog Film (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
You review: Brideshead RevisitedThat wasn't in the book! ... A scene from Brideshead revisitedOne might have expected this new adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel to be ripe territory for readers of the right-wing press, with its ornate period setting and fascination with the privileged classes.Brideshead Revisited Release: 2008 Country: UK Cert (UK): 12A Runtime: 132 mins Directors: Julian...
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DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Brideshead Revisited (12a) Dir. Julian Jarrold Reviewed by Matt Adcock Nobody does the lives and loves of posh totty quite like Evelyn Waugh in his various classic books and in Brideshead Revisited we have a poignant story of forbidden love and lost innocence set in England prior to the Second World War. I grew up watching the 1980’s TV series version starring Laurence Olivier,Diana Quick...
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The Herald (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
First, the important stuff: Aloysius is alive and well. There had been rumours that the teddy bear had been given his marching orders from Julian Jarrold’s Brideshead Revisited, but here he is, in the arms of dear, dear Sebastian once more.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
... The yarn itself is rather thin, but the spinning is out of this world.Brideshead Revisited (12A)(Julian Jarrold, 2008, UK) Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Emma Thompson, Hayley Atwell. 133 mins.Streamlined and polished for a new generation, this heated tale of 1930s class/faith boundaries at least distinguishes itself from the previous versions, even if the story gets compressed and distorted...
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Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Sadly, director Julian Jarrold (Becoming Jane) doesn't provide one. Still, there are many decent aspects to this scrumptious forbidden love triangle that sees desperate-to-fit-in 1920s Oxford grad Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) seduced first by the louche aristo lifestyle of his new teddy-bear-hugging friend Sebastian (a wonderful performance by Ben Wishaw), then by Sebastian's busty sister...
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Brideshead Revisited: Oh what an awful Waugh!By Last updated at 10:36 PM on 02nd October 2008Brideshead Revisited (12A)Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel should be filmable. After all, it has luxurious locations and misbehaving toffs in period costume. Julian Jarrold does justice to those elements.This is a handsome movie, and Castle Howard (standing in for Brideshead, as it did in the famous...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Julian Jarrold’s glossy film version of Brideshead Revisited is reassuringly expensive and impeccably well-dressed. It is also haunted by a stifling sense of déjà vu. Haven’t we been to these stuffy parts before? After the first reel it feels uncomfortably like we never left. It’s always a pleasure to revisit the decadence of Castle Howard, but Brideshead fans will be disappointed by the lack of fresh...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
The film of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel is a good-looking but empty slice of heritage cinema, says Sukhdev SandhuYou have to admire the chutzpah of anyone bringing Brideshead Revisited to the big screen. The 1981 Granada version was one of the high points in the history of television drama - generously paced over many weeks, lavishly presented, brilliantly performed. How could director Julian...
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Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
... later scenes need to be played out at such length. There is a lot to be said for compression, and Julian Jarrold and his screenwriters, Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock, do an admirable job in bringing in a Brideshead in 132 minutes.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
It turns out that it's a good job Irons resisted the offer. The film's director, Julian Jarrold, was not keen on having Irons in the cast, and says the decision to offer him a role was made over his head by the movie's producers. "To be honest I'm glad he wasn't involved," Jarrold told me at the film's premiere on Monday night. "We really tried to separate ourselves from the TV...
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This is London (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
... more than 60 years, Evelyn Waugh's much-loved novel has finally made it to the big screen. Julian Jarrold's adaptation is as thoughtful and handsomely mounted a period piece as I've seen, loaded to the chimney pots with lovely frocks, vintage cars, and the best and most beautiful British actors around. A great escape from current woes, I suppose. Of course it's more hurried than both...
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Empire News (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
The landed gentry (and their friends) stepped on to the red carpet to celebrate the UK premiere of Brideshead Revisited, the new adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel of suppressed love, religious zeal and ruffled teddy bears. Following in the footsteps of the beloved TV mini-series of the early 80s, director Julian Jarrold hopes for an equally huge smash hit success with his truncated...
