Review of Brideshead Revisited (2008) by Jennifer L — 13 Oct 2008

Great film, you can certainatly see their self destruction. Quite long but good, recommend it.

This review of Brideshead Revisited (2008) was written by Jennifer L on 13 Oct 2008.

Brideshead Revisited has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Megan Basham (282) for WORLD (293) on 09 Oct 2018

Director Julian Jarrold and screenwriters Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock seem to have no idea how to interpret their source material…

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By Rebecca F (109) on 05 Jul 2011

Holllly crap my cousin is in this movie Hayley Atwell my third cousin I love you cous best movie ever…

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While this film has stunning production values and a great cast, I cannot recommend any film which does such a terrible disservice to its source…

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This was such a disappointment! The original TV miniseries was so powerful--this was just a shadow of the book and the original TV miniseries…

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I have the feeling that this is one of the rare time I saw actors playing so naturally, and making me forget that I was watching a movie and…

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It's easy to overstate the varied accomplishments here because of how badly it might have gone…

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By Sharon A (222) on 27 Nov 2011

I have not seen the TV series, nor did I ever read the book, but I liked this enough. Quite sad in parts…

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It's a great piece of work in a movie that, whatever its failings, deserves to be seen even if you swear undying allegiance to the BBC mini-series…

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