Ritorno a Brideshead

Director Julian Jarrold revisits Evelyn Waugh's tale. It's a trip that is hard to justify

To many contemporary viewers, " Brideshead Revisited" means not just Evelyn Waugh's original novel but also memories of the celebrated 1980s television miniseries starring Jeremy Irons. It was quite the event in its day, and the makers of this new feature film adaptation in essence have not just one but two source texts they are fated to be held up against.
This latest version has been directed by Julian Jarrold from a screenplay by Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock, and it says much about what a bind the filmmakers were in that they chose to use the same manor as the miniseries did to represent the grand estate where many of the key events in the film take place. [...]

di Mark Olsen, articolo completo (3030 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 25 luglio 2008