Product: Brideshead Revisited [VHS] (1982)
Rating: 5.0
Great Art based on Great Art
This production need not be limited to "ever made for TV." This is one of the greatest and most profound movies ever made. Every element of every scene is superb and riveting. I watched it again, twenty years after first seeing it, and enjoyed it even more with my Southern Baptist wife who kept insisting "let's watch just one more episode"!This story is esentially Catholicism talking to itself through both the main characters and the sheer majesty of the Brideshead Estate (Castle Howard). This work is epically and evengelically Catholic. Anyone who sees "Brideshead Revisited" will find his tongue stopped about pedophile priests and "Hitler's pope" because his mind has been slowly, platonically wrestled around to see the glory of God's church on earth. Waugh is a midwife first, author second; and I would say the same of Mortimer, who made this production happen. Thank God for both men and for this production.