Wednesday April 24th 2013
UK  2008  133 minutes
Director: Julian Jarrold
Starring: Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Emma Thompson

Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel ‘Bridehead Revisited’, subtitled ‘The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder’, was published in 1945, and brought to the screen in 1981 as a lengthy TV serial. This shorter film adaptation, made in 2008, is told in flashback after Charles Ryder, now a successful painter, unexpectedly re-meets Julia Flyte, the older of (Lord) Sebastian Flyte’s two sisters. The story tells of the growing relationship between Sebastian and Charles after their meeting as undergraduates in Oxford, and Charles’ increasingly complicated entanglement with the aristocratic and strictly Roman Catholic Marchmain/Flyte family.