Brideshead Revisited Movie Reviews
July 26, 2008 · Filed Under 2008 Movies Reviews · Comments Off
The new movie version of Brideshead Revisited stays relatively true to Waugh’s plot, and Julian Jarrold has directed it lavishly, but the main difference is that the film’s emotions keep sloshing around on the surface. Sebastian Flyte, the troubled, indulgent rich kid who still carries a teddy bear, and whose guilt about his homosexual leanings turns him into a drunk, is now a flamboyant, hair-tossing delinquent played by Ben Whishaw with a pout so petulant he makes Jonathan Rhys Meyers look like a smiley-face button. Read more
