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Film Brideshead Revisited (2008)

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For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format. The story of the Oxford art student who falls in love with an entire, stricken aristocratic family sprawls over several decades and tackles no less than the Church, war, homosexuality, and class in Mother England. Happily, director Julian Jarrold pulls it off in lavish style, mostly by substituting the terrific scale of the big screen for the fine detailing found in Evelyn Waugh's original novel. As the courtly painter Charles, Matthew Goode summons a dreamy combination of matinee-idol good looks and Anglo self-deprecation.

– Lisa Rosman

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