Product: Brideshead Revisited [VHS] (1982)
Rating: 5.0
Brideshead Revisited --- A Story of Love and Loss
Evelyn Waugh is well known for his humorous stories. This is not one of those. Brideshead Revisited is a story of love and loss...mostly loss. Written after his harshest critic, his father, had died, this is a baring of a soul. The narrative prose is the closest to poetry of anything I've read and is unutterably sad. This production is very faithful to the text and features a stellar cast (Sir John Gielgud and Sir Laurence Olivier for starters). Added to this is photography one wants to print and hang on the wall. Set in the English countryside and Venice the views are stunning and only add to the sense of paradise lost. I think this was the BBC's finest and most lavish production.