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Brideshead Revisited is the finest film made for television that I have ever seen. It is true to Evelyn Waugh’s great novel. After watching this movie I bought the book and liked it as much as the videos. For those viewers who like to read, if you enjoyed the film you are almost certain to love the book.
After reading the novel, I viewed the tapes a second time and discovered that the movie was even better than I first thought.
What makes this video series great? The performances by a top flight cast are superb and the story is compelling. Jeremy Irons plays the part of Charles Ryder, an artist in search of his soul. His paintings are technially brilliant, but something is missing from them. An eccentric friend characterizes Ryder’s work as full of “charm,” and this evaluation is true — the paintings are stylish, but soulless.
Anthony Andrews brings to life Ryder’s Oxford college friend, Lord Sebastian Flyte, a spoiled royal trying to break free from the influence of his disfuntional family. Claire Bloom is his mother, Lady Marchmain, separated from his father, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Lord Marchmain. Bloom is cool and calculating and she drives young Sebastian to drink. He becomes an embarassing drunk which she seems pleased to attempt to reclaim from social and spiritual destruction.
Unlike his friend, Charles Ryder, Sebastian does have a soul which his mother seems detemined to destroy. It is only late in the film that Ryder realizes the machiavellian nature of Lady Marchmain, unlike Sebastian, who has understood his mother’s nature all along. Ryder subverts her wishes by giving Sebastian money for alcohol and then Ryder makes a break with the family when his gift of money to Sebastian is discovered by her and she confronts Ryder with her muted, yet terrible anger.
Sir John Gielgud is brilliant as Ryder’s disinterested father and we come to understand why Ryder lacks Sebastian’s heart. Ryder grew up unloved and uncared for and he spends the rest of his life attempting to overcome his disabilty. His marriage to his first wife ends in divorce and he then falls in love with Lady Julia, Sebastian’s sister. In the end Ryder’s coldness, aloofness, and disdain for religion, something Julia and Sebastian hold dear, cause their breakup.
Last, but not least, the filmmakers have lavished great expense on all aspects of this production. The sets are superbly created to give us a true feel for the time and place in England at the time between the great wars. The music also deserves special mention. It beautifully supports the story and is worth listening to on its own merits. It stays in the listener’s mind long after the drama is finished.
Can film ever stand comparison with great literaure? The Brideshead Revisited video series answers this question with a resounding “yes”!
Through my own connections, I was able to obtain this item a month before its street date so you all get to know what you’re getting.
The Brideshead DVD Box Set, while not perfect, is indeed excellent and I’ll explain why.
As is increasingly the case, the actual disc carriages are part of a three leaved slide-out assemblage which folds up and then is stored in a case, just like with the Godfather DVD Box Set.
These case formats are an excellent way to fight piracy and look great but are not the best in in terms of long term box preservation as cardboard and photo-printed cardboard will degrade.
This release of Brideshead is the 660 minute version of the mini-series and I believe this is the longest and most complete version ever released!
The episode menus and scene selection are pretty, functional and fairly rudimentary, nothing exceptional here.
A little booklet with some director’s commentary and info on Evelyn Waugh and the episodes is included.
There are no real DVD Special Edition type extras save for a brief but comprehensive written film/DVD production summary, info on Castle Howard, a cast/production team bio (Aloysius has his own entry and a hysterically funny news interview with the director about him), and some photography taken while shooting.
There are regrettably no interviews with the cast or production team, no director’s commentary, and no deleted/extended scenes, though since we’ve all been forced to endure the butchered Home Video verson this as full as full can be version is in a sense full of them. There are no theatrical trailers or television spots.
Image quality is good and one thing that’s mentioned in the production report is just how painstaking the video/audio restoration really was and how VERY lucky they — and we — were to be able to find the original film master in England and then clean it up.
Once again, and this is becoming a great joke in the film community, a US company picks up the distribution/restoration rights to a foreign country’s film treasures and then releases the best version ever made outside the market it originated in. We did it to the Japanese with Macross and we did it to England with Brideshead Revisited.
This version of Brideshead looks better then the original did when it first came out for reasons explained on the DVD.
The video and audio restoration was very good given the age and condition of the original film master. It’s a little grainy here and there but that would have been tough to avoid. They should have spread this out over more discs for the most optimal compression ratios and resulting images but you’ll not be disappointed with the results.
If this title sells as well as it should, perhaps the American company that obtained and restored it can do a Special Edition version. For now, after all these years, Brideshead is where it belongs, on DVD and in my collection.
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