Brideshead Revisited

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What would the film industry be like without another Emma Thompson film set in ye olde times? Well, depending on who you are - better or worse. It's really up in the air.

However, it looks like here latest might just bridge the gap between mainstream success, and English snootiness.

Brideshead Revisited, the epic novel of life, death and spiritual renewal among the English Catholic gentry, is widely described as Evelyn Waugh's greatest work. Whilst at Oxford University a chance encounter with the charming and decadent Sebastian Flyte, son of Lord Marchmain, draws Charles Ryder into the exclusive world of British high society.

For the impressionable Charles, Sebastian's world of money, glamour and outrageous behaviour makes for a seductive cocktail. Sebastian takes Charles under his wing and when he's invited to 'Brideshead', the Flyte family's magnificent ancestral home, Charles becomes infatuated with Julia, Sebastian’s beautiful sister.

This one is bound to appeal to the crowd that adored Atonement, so it will be interesting to see if the Academy look upon it just as fondly once Oscar season comes rolling around.

Brideshead Revisited is yet another English classic from Emma Thompson