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New "Brideshead Revisited" film opening 7/25/08 (spoilers)

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Brown Eyes:

I saw Brideshead this afternoon and I quite liked it.  It definitely wasn't the best film I've every seen, but I thought it was well done.  I really like the book.  And, I think that Sebastian was the best character and most interestingly portrayed character in the movie.  Charles seems so flat... but then I think maybe he's supposed to see m flat even in the book.

Here's one particular reaction that you all will understand... as a Brokie I actually got a physical jolt the first time that I heard the Brokieism "it could be just like this always" uttered!  And, then it came up again a second time later on!

And, I just have to say Hayley Atwell as Julia Flyte was absolutely drop dead gorgeous to me.  I could look at her all day long.
:)

Kerry:

I love the book and the television series and am looking forward to seeing the film.  :D

Kerry:

I saw it yesterday.


I have always loved the book, from the very first time I read it, way back in my teenage years. And I loved absolutely everything about the television series.

I enjoyed the film, but wasn't completely enraptured by it, as I was expecting. I wouldn't exactly say I was disappointed - I enjoyed it - but I didn't exactly love it either.

It was an entertaining diversion.

retropian:
I watched it last night on DVD and quite liked it. I had seen the original series way back when and read the novel shortly after, so I don't recall alot of detail.

I liked the casting, especially Charles and Sebastian. Especially Sebastian. he was that epicene beauty, tender and tremulous and oh so vulnerable. To me his character is the real center of the film. I think he represents youthful innocence, something Charles has, but like all of us, something that if not killed outright fades like a plucked flower, as does Sebastian. Innocence is something still present in us, like a memory and like a memory can be conjured and mourned. I think Charles represents the rising middle class between the Wars. He is entraced by the glamour of the aristocratic British past. It is something he aspires too, but can never possess. One can only be born to it, and born in the past a that. By stiving for that, Charles looses or rather abandons the one thing of real value: Sebastian.

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