Making headlines back in 1981, BRIDESHEAD was adapted into an acclaimed landmark television mini-series but it is only now, with director Julian Jarrold at the helm and a stellar cast in play that Waugh’s work achieves its true splendor as BRIDESHEAD REVISITED comes to the silver screen in what is most certainly a guaranteed Best Picture nominee for Oscar gold.Ĭharles Ryder is young, level-headed but at times albeit impetuous college student. Included in Time Magazine’s “Top 100 Novels”, “Brideshead Revisited” has become a classic since its publication in 1945. Now billeted at Brideshead late in WW II, Ryder looks back on his life and times with the Marchmains and a time when class and Catholicism clashed. Spanning three decades from the 1920’s through the 1940’s, Waugh’s words were lush, provocative, opulent and in many respects, autobiographical, mesmerizing us with the timeless story of the aristocratic Marchmain family and their beloved palatial Brideshead Castle, as told through remembrance by the once young, but always middle class, Charles Ryder. There are few that have made it through a formative high school education that are unfamiliar with Evelyn Waugh’s epic novel “Brideshead Revisited.” Written by Waugh in a span of four months while on leave from the Army late in WWII in 1944 and completed as the Allied forces were landing in Normandy, for many, “Brideshead Revisited” was the last bastion of the English Catholic aristocracy.
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