Inspired by the best-selling novel, the provocative and intense Brideshead Revisited is a riveting drama of forbidden love, power and betrayal, featuring stunning performances by Academy Award® winner Emma Thompson (Best Actress, Howards End, 1993) and Matthew Goode (Cemetery Junction). When the charming aristocrat Sebastian invites Charles Ryder (Goode) to his family's estate, Charles becomes seduced by their opulent lifestyle...and by Sebastian's sister (Golden Globe® nominee Hayley Atwell). As their romance deepens, Charles discovers that at Brideshead, love, money, and power come at a price.

Inspired by the best-selling novel, "Brideshead Revisited" is a riveting drama of love, power and betrayal, featuring stunning performances by Academy Award(R) winner Emma Thompson (Best Actress, "Howards End", 1992) and Matthew Goode ("The Lookout"). When the charming aristocrat Sebastian invites Charles Ryder to his family's estate, Charles becomes seduced by the opulent lifestyle of the Marchmain family, and by Julia, Sebastian's sister. As their romance deepens, repercussions follow, and Charles discovers that at Brideshead, love, money and power come at a price. It's a spellbinding story you'll want to revisit again and again.

The legendary television series, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, based on the 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh, is compiled in a very special, digitally remastered collection. Set in the glittering, yet fading world of the British aristocracy, the series stars the astonishing trio Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, and Diana Quick, and features stunning performances by Sir John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, and Sir Laurence Olivier.

Free Worldwide Delivery : Brideshead Revisited: Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141182483 : 0141182482 : 30 Mar 2000 : Tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognize only his spiritual and social distance from them.

Though director Julian Jarrold's adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh novel BRIDESHEAD REVISITED spans decades and continents it's a taut film that never drags and can excite contemporary audiences. Matthew Goode MATCH POINT stars as lower-class Londoner Charles Ryder an aspiring artist who is beginning his studies in history at Oxford in the 1920s. A chance encounter with dandyish aristocrat Sebastian Flyte Ben Whishaw PERFUME changes the course of his life. The two embark on a close intense friendship that is further complicated by the introduction of Sebastian's beautiful sister Julia Hayley Atwell CASSANDRA'S DREAM and his overbearing extremely religious mother Lady Marchmain Emma Thompson. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED follows Charles from the carefree '20s through the beginning of World War II focusing on his complicated relationship with the upper-class family and their estate Brideshead. Along with ATONEMENT's Joe Wright Jarrold BECOMING JANE represents a new era of British period filmmaking. Both men bring a modern sensibility to their work that makes their films feel fresh and sexy though they never lose authenticity. Jarrold employs some handheld camera work and quick-cut editing in BRIDESHEAD REVISITED two techniques that separate his film from others in the genre. Fans of the book--and the 11-hour 1981 miniseries--may bristle at the film's relatively brief running time but screenwriters Andrew Davies the BBC classic PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and Jeremy Brock THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND have distilled the story into the essentials. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED deftly works with the conflicts of class religion and desire and with its artful costumes and gorgeous settings is essential viewing for fans of the genre.

A study of faith and disillusionment in a glamorous upper-class world, Waugh's most famous novel is partly autobiographical and is a gripping multi-character-study....

Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece of aristocracy and romantic yearnings between the wars came to life a quarter-century ago, in one of television's best series, starring Jeremy Irons, Claire Bloom, Anthony Andrews, and Sir Laurence Olivier. Relive the epic drama of Brideshead Revisited in this special silver anniversary edition, including a new featurette, "Revisiting Brideshead," and interviews with many of the stars.

Charles Ryder’s friendship with the charming Sebastian Flyte and his family begins when they are both at Oxford in 1923. Carefree days of drinking champagne and driving in the country soon end, however, as Sebastian’s health deteriorates. Questions about morality and religion are raised as the radiant tone gives way to a bleak atmosphere of shattered illusion. This an unabridged reading of Evelyn Waugh’s most romantic and controversial book, narrated by revered British actor Jeremy Irons.

Inspired by the best-selling novel, the provocative and intense BRIDESHEAD REVISITED is a riveting drama of forbidden love, power and betrayal, featuring stunning performances by Academy Award winner Emma Thompson (Best Actress, Howards End, 1992) and Matthew Goode (The Lookout). When the charming aristocrat Sebastian invites Charles Ryder to his family's estate, Charles becomes seduced by the opulent lifestyle of the Marchmain family and by Julia, Sebastian's sister. As their romances deepens, repercussions follow, and Charles discovers that a Brideshead, love, money and power come at a price. It's a spellbinding story you'll want to revisit again and again.

The legendary television series, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, based on the 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh, is compiled in a very special, digitally remastered collection. Set in the glittering, yet fading world of the British aristocracy, the series stars the astonishing trio Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, and Diana Quick, and features stunning performances by Sir John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, and Sir Laurence Olivier.

&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Product DetailsOriginal Title:Brideshead RevisitedActors: Ben Whishaw - Emma Thompson - Hatley Atwell - Michael GambonDirector: Julian JarroldCondition: NEWFormat: DVDFormat Size: WidescreenRuntime: 133 minsLanguage: EnglishRegion code: Region 1 (United States, Canada, Bermuda, U.S. territories)Discs: 1Rating: PG-13Genre: DramaRelease Year: 2008Your browser does not support iframes.

As a student at Oxford, Charles Ryder is captivated by the decadent, aristocratic Sebastian Flyte, who invites him to spend time at his family home—the magnificent Brideshead. He becomes infatuated with its eccentric inhabitants, especially Sebastian's sister, Julia, but things begin to unravel when Charles notices cracks in the family's carefully tended veneer: its secrets, its oppressive Catholicism, Sebastian's increasing reliance on alcohol. This remarkable examination of dysfunction and devotion remains one of the great novels of the 20th century.

It is World War II and Captain Charles Ryder reflects upon his time at Oxford during the '20s and a world now changed....

Free Worldwide Delivery : Brideshead Revisited : CD-Audio : AudioGO Limited : 9781408400944 : 1408400944 : 11 Sep 2008 : Charles Ryder's friendship with the charming, irrepressible Sebastian Flyte and his equally charming, eccentric family begins when they are both Oxford undergraduates in 1923. Carefree days of drinking champagne and driving in the country soon end, however, as Sebastian's health deteriorates. Questions about mortality and religion are raised.

Waugh tells the story of the Marchmain family. Aristocratic, beautiful and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol of England and her decline in this novel of the upper class of the 1920s and the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Evelyn Waugh’s most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous plea?sures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh’s familiar satiric exploration of his cast of lords and ladies, Catholics and eccentrics, artists and misfits, revealing him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity.The edition reprinted here contains Waugh’s revisions, made in 1959, and his preface to the revised edition.From the Hardcover edition.

Free Worldwide Delivery : Brideshead Revisited: Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141187471 : 0141187476 : 28 Aug 2003 : Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognize his spiritual and social distance from them.