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Brideshead Revisited

Year:

2008

Duration:

Argentina:133 min | USA:133 min

Genres:

Drama | Romance

IMDB rate:

6.7

Director:

Julian Jarrold

Awards:

10 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 2008-07-25

Filming Locations: Art Deco Palm Court, Park Lane Hotel, Piccadilly, London, England, UK

Earnings

Budget: $20,000,000

Opening Weekend: $339,616 (USA) (27 July 2008)

Gross: $6,414,563 (USA) (21 September 2008)

Cast

Actor

Character

Matthew Goode

Brideshead Revisited

Hayley Atwell

Brideshead Revisited

Thomas Morrison

Hooper

David Barrass

Ship's Barber

Anna Madeley

Celia Ryder

Sarah Crowden

Lady Guest

Stephen Carlile

English Lord

Peter Barnes

American Professor

Patrick Malahide

Mr Ryder

Richard Teverson

Cousin Jasper

Joseph Beattie

Anthony Blanche

Ben Whishaw

Sebastian Flyte

Roger Walker

Lunt

Mark Field

Boy Mulcaster

Mark Edel-Hunt

Oxford Student

Rita Davies

Nanny Hawkins

Ed Stoppard

Bridey Flyte

Emma Thompson

Lady Marchmain

Felicity Jones

Cordelia Flyte

Geoffrey Wilkinson

Wilcox

Michael Gambon

Lord Marchmain

Greta Scacchi

Cara

James Bradshaw

Mr Samgrass

Jonathan Cake

Rex Mottram

Tom Wlaschiha

Kurt

Stephane Cornicard

Doctor Henri

Susan Brown

Nurse

Niall Buggy

Father Mackay

Michael Berendt

Art Student (uncredited)

Shane James Bordas

Cruise Ship Passenger (uncredited)

Giada Dobrzenska

Venetian Party Girl (uncredited)

James Fiddy

Student / Military (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Castle Howard, which 'plays' Brideshead in this film, was also used to represent the same location in Brideshead Revisited (1981).

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David Yates was set to direct this film, but had to step aside from the director's chair to direct Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) instead. While Yates was attached, Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly and Jude Law were cast in the roles of Charles, Julia and Sebastian respectively. It was also announced that Chatsworth House in Derbyshire would be used as Brideshead.

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After Charles "betrays" Sebastian in Venice, there is a shot of an altarpiece in an Italian church, with a depiction of the "Martyrdom of St. Sebastian." You can identify him by the arrows protruding from his body.

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Goofs

After the dinner, at which Charles first meets Lady Marchmain, the family go to pray in the private chapel. The ladies, as Roman Catholics, would have covered their heads with a scarf or a veil.

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In Lord Marchmain's deathbed scene, Fr. Mackay imparts absolution while Charles Ryder and members of the family are in attendance. Absolution is never imparted in public in this way. The others would have been asked to step out. Moreover, the Latin form of the absolution given, although it is the correct traditional one, is badly mispronounced and contains several errors in the details of the Latin text.

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The Venetian drummers have instruments fitted with Mylar drumheads (Remo Pinstripes) that were not manufactured before WWII. Calfskin heads or ones that resembled calfskin would have been more appropriate for the time.

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Quotes

Sebastian Flyte: It's rather a pleasant change... when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after, yourself.

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Boy Markaster: What do you want to be an artist for? I mean, what's the point of it? Why don't you just buy a bloody camera and take a bloody photograph and stop giving yourself airs? That's what I want to know.

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Sebastian Flyte: Charles! You're to come away at once. I've got a basket of strawberries and a bottle of Chateau Peyraguey, which isn't a wine you've ever tasted so don't pretend.

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Faq

Is "Brideshead Revisited" based on a novel?

Yes. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (1945) is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh [1903-1966].

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