Ritorno a Brideshead

Revisiting ‘Brideshead Revisited’

THE images from the 11-episode mini-series are still vivid, 27 years later. Louche young Oxford students in crisp linen suits (and one teddy bear) drinking endless cocktails. A spectacular country estate, dripping with treasures and crackling with religious, sexual and dynastic tensions. A delicately beautiful Jeremy Irons.
It is those lingering memories, even more than Evelyn Waugh’s novel, that anyone attempting to turn “Brideshead Revisited” into a feature film for the first time naturally has to contend with. [...]

di Sarah Lyall, articolo completo (6696 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 20 Luglio 2008