Brideshead Revisited
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The very Catholic are very different from you and me. OK, me maybe not so much.
Never read the book, never saw the BBC miniseries, read a couple of reviews, but was somehow unprepared for the sheer . . . Catholicity of it. Unprepared in particular to be struck so close to home by Emma Thompson's portrayal of Lady Marchmain as a woman who wants only to protect her children from the world's wickedness, and so of course alienates the ones with brains, if not quite permanently enough.
Trailer
- Blindness--On the one hand, the novel is my favorite by my favorite living novelist whom I don't know personally (and now I see that the screenplay is by Don McKellar of Twitch City and Slings & Arrows . . . well, "fame" isn't quite the word) and the film stars My Future Wife Julianne Moore; on the other, Manohla Dargis pissed all over the film when it showed at Cannes, and the trailer suggests that what was magical in the book may indeed be simply mechanical in the film. Still, hard to imagine my giving it a miss.
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Does that mean you'd recommend it, or not? I've also neither read nor viewed, but my aversion for Jeremy Irons probably takes care of the possibility of my viewing the much-loved miniseries.
I think someone who has never done the Catholic thing would find much of it implausible, but for Catholics it plays like a sort of real-life horror film. Certainly wouldn't classify it as a "must," though it may get some Oscar noms in the aesthetics categories.
Oh, but thanks for giving me an excuse to mention something that irked me but that I forgot about when posting: they go to Venice in the summer . . . and are there for Carnevale?
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