RosieBell (Free subscription) | yesterday
Having read Hitchens on the film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, I then had another go at the novel, which I used to think over-written and absurd. I was especially uncharmed by the winsome Sebastian and his teddy bear. Usually Evelyn...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
As Brideshead Revisited's Sebastian Flyte and his teddy Aloysius return to the screen, six grown-up men introduce their bears
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...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
... world. Rising British stars Matthew Goode and Ben Whishaw are perfectly cast as Charles and Sebastian. It is an intelligent, respectable literary adaptation and yet somehow the book’s great themes and conflicts seem to slip through its fingers.Spanning two decades, the film criss-crosses past and present as we follow the tale of bright, middle-class boy Charles Ryder (Goode) and his infatuation...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
... under the wing of cousin Jasper (Teverson), who warns him against fraternising with lushes like Sebastian Flyte (Whishaw). Curiosity piqued, Charles accepts an invitation to join the aristocrat’s inner circle, forging an intimate bond with the fey, fragile student, who describes himself as "the family shadow".Sebastian invites his new friend to the childhood estate, Brideshead,...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
... boy who arrives at Oxford in the 1920s and becomes intrigued by the aristocratic hedonism of Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw), into whose sprawling country home he is soon introduced. Their power, eccentricities and their relationship to God enthral him, and he Sebastian. But, partly as a way of escaping from his domineering mother Lady Marchmain (Emma Thompson), and partly through...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
... investment. It’s Oxford, 1925 and Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) is befriended by the flamboyant Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw), son of Lord and Lady Marchmain (Michael Gambon and Emma Thompson). Quickly seduced by Sebastian’s lifestyle and intrigued by his sexuality, Charles finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into the Marchmain family after being asked to visit their ancestral...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
... spell of a wealthy family. A platonic friendship at Oxford with Ben Whishaw’s exotic aristocrat, Sebastian Flyte, becomes damagingly intense when Charles is introduced to the addictive privileges of Brideshead. The secret homosexual gropes and clumsy kisses are as sexually exciting as frozen peas. Related LinksFamily suppers sour into grim battles of will when Charles falls in love...
The First Post (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
... who becomes enchanted with an aristocratic family, falling first into a passionate friendship with Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw), then with his sister Julia (Hayley Atwell), as their estranged parents (Emma Thompson and Michael Gambon) hover overhead. But alongside these great flutterings of the heart is a discussion on the British class system, sexual taboos and, most importantly,...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Brideshead Revisited concerns the naïve young middle-class protagonist Charles Ryder (Goode), and his close friendship with the dissolute young aristocrat Sebastian Flyte (Whishaw), who virtually adopts Ryder as his brother. Over the course of time, Ryder is inducted into Flyte's strict Catholic family, ruled by his stern mother Lady Marchmain (Thompson) in the absence of his dissolute...
This is London (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Brideshead RevisitedCert: Nick Curtis's rating Brideshead intelligently, elegantly but much too hurriedly revisited By Nick Curtis, Evening Standard 30.09.08 "Sibling" rivalry: Ben Whishaw and Hayley Atwell fool around at the premiere of Brideshead Revisited, in which they play Sebastian and Julia Flyte Atwell and Whishaw with Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder in the movie Whishaw and Atwell...
Hellomagazine.com (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
... was fellow actor Matthew Goode - the new face of Hackett - who plays Charles Ryder to Ben's Lord Sebastian Flyte. The new film, which goes on general release next month, follows in the footsteps of the hugely successful 1981 TV series starring Jeremy Irons and Diane Quick. The big screen adaptation has received mixed reviews, however, for having strayed too far from the original novel....
