Product: Brideshead Revisited [VHS] (1982)
Rating: 5.0
Fascinating Take on Catholicism
As the other reviews have stated, Brideshead is one of the best works ever produced by the BBC. What I found most fascinating was its fundamentally British take on Catholicism -- that you have to evaluate the quest for religious purity in the context of the individuals involved, their class and emotional structure.To conclude that Lady Marchmain is a saint or a vampire (as the delightful Anthony Blanche character called her) is simplistic and limiting. A more significant point is that Lady Marchmain had married into an aristocratic family and appeared to use her religious fanaticism to drive her titled husband out of the country, with the fortuitous result of gaining complete control over her children and the Brideshead estate.