BBC is so clever

Rating: 7/10 (28 December 2008)

Once again the British show how a costume drama is to be made. Every detail in furniture, fashion and hair is perfect. Much of the acting is made through eyes and gestures. So very clever indeed.
This is about the duchess who marries an emotional desert. Not strange according to the times and her class, but she starts to oppose it in a rebel way. It becomes more of a rebellion than is suitable to the times and the surroundings.
And the actors get much out of this rather limited problem. You start to care about this poor aristocrat and once again there are proves of class issues never being the only platform for a drama. It's irrelevant, if it hasn't got living people in it.