Becoming Jane

The movie Becoming Jane

Submitted by DrowningMyFear 5 months ago

Director Julian Jarrold and screenwriters Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock had to compress and reconfigure Evelyn Waugh 's layered, elegiac novel, while finding a visual equivalent to convey its famously lyrical ...

The palatial estate sits languid against the landscape, the massive family home looking as much like a museum as a manor.

Human figures may be glimpsed amid the expensively furnished wastes of "Brideshead Revisited," but I admit I lost sight of them for whole stretches.

AN UNIMPEACHABLE YET ultimately unmoving adaptation of Evelyn Waugh 's classic novel about social ambition, religious conflict and doomed love.

"Brideshead Revisited" is an unimpeachable yet ultimately unmoving adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel about social ambition, religious conflict and doomed love.