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Brideshead Revisited
Drama, Romance
Befriended by aristocrat Sebastian Flyte, Oxford student Charles Ryder finds that the power and privilege experienced by the family is seductive. On a visit to the ancestral home, Brideshead, he falls in love with his friend's sister, Julia. However, as his ties to the Flytes deepen, Ryder finds himself at odds with their strong Roman Catholicism.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who savor lush period drama about desire, privilege, and spiritual conflict, with emotionally restrained performances and a lingering sense of lost possibility.
- Tone
- melancholic, romantic, bittersweet
- Payoff
- heartbreak, reflection
- Pacing
- meditative
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- class privilege, faith, family, forbidden love, loss of innocence
- Setting
- interwar England and Europe, aristocratic estates, university colleges, and cosmopolitan retreats
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