Brideshead Revisited

Grossly underated by many many people. Stunning cinemtography, great acting and I did enjoy the plot mainly because there was nothing wrong with it!! I don't understand the comments on here, alll I can say is ignore them and go along and see this wonderfull film which is a delight to see!

Opulent, stylish adaptation has exquisite and luxurious costume and set design, capped by a beautifully appointed evocation of the Brideshead homestead (managing to be by turns seductive and forbidding) - having not seen the TV adaptation, this material does feel like it would breathe better in a longer format (with the last half feeling especially pinched), but great work by its cast (highlighted by Thompson and Whishaw) and a genuine feeling for time and place make this largely captivating.

This film is visually stunning, however the plot and character development lack depth. Watching it was more like viewing a great painting than hearing a great story.

Maybe one shouldn't compare a movie to its novel origin - but I do it anyway... IMO, if you wouldn't know the novel this would be a pretty ok movie. However, if you do know the novel, you'll see that they took certain liberties, some that are forgiveable and some that are not. But make up your own minds. Technically, this one is very well done.

The acting, cinematography and costume design are all excellent. However, I absolutely loathed the plot and the characters and never want to see this movie ever again. Also I seriously don't believe Emma Thompson as an elderly mother. She's not even 50 yet!

The recreation of 20th century England makes a great set for the story to unfold. For the story itself, it's fair enough, it kept me interested througout the whole of the movie. Still, in places the overall tention feels a bit strained.

kind of being julia 2 ... *yawn*

A great reminder why Catholicism is a dying (evil) religion...

Inferior to the 1981 miniseries, by a lot. Just about the only thing this one improves on is Emma Thompson as Lady Marchmain.

Watson appears very little but it's very effective. Unrequited or old love are never easy to go through or remember, are they?

Holy crap this movie was boring. And not in a good, slow moving way.

all the parts with sebastian were excruciatingly dull and didn't allow the audience to feel any connection with any of the characters, but once sebastian was removed from the plot and the story began to explore julia and charles's relationship and his obsession with brideshead, the movie became more real and tolerable.

Well, it's reasonably well-made, anyhow. Unfortunately, the problem with many pictures of this sort is that you wind up being much more impressed with the lovingly detailed recreation of early 20th century England (clothes, customs, cars, architecture, etc.) than you are with the story or characters. Thus, the term "costume drama". And, to be brutally frank, this is just too damned gay besides

apart from the annoying catholicism propaganda in the final act, it's a beautiful love movie with amazing cinematography

Pretty, and pretty boring. Here's a film for fans of Ivory and Merchant. All others would be better advised to watch the paint dry on a really well-painted wall.

"This new Brideshead takes a step in the right direction, but it's time some radical writer or filmmaker dared to leave out the dim Julia charade and let Charles and Sebastian play out their Isherwood/Auden Oxford love match to its full." - Dan Callahan

Ben Whishaw should be a bigger star than he is, he's excellent in everything he does, and plays a perfect Sebastian in this adaptation.

Passable adaptation but I would prefer to watch the old TV adaptation or read the book again.

NIce costumes. Very authentic. But this movie... At one point Julia asks "What is it Charles Ryder really wants?" and you know, I would have liked to know that as well. I mean the acting is great and the whole love triangle is wonderfully sordid but Charles is passed around like a potato and isn't it ironic that he is supposed to be the only atheist and yet everything that happens to him is because of Catholicism?

The film starts well, setting up conflicts centered around romantic longing and driven stabs at upward mobility, bolstered by nice performances from Thompson and Whishaw. Problems arise, largely because the lead character, as played by Goode, is too much a cipher to carry the weight of the story's payoffs. Goode is painfully flat, apparently incapable of providing his character with the undercurrents necessary to add weight to the question of whether he loves a woman for herself or her status.