Cinema Society Holds Special Screening Of "Brideshead Revisited"
July 23, 2008
"Brideshead Revisited", a film based on the Evelyen Wah book of the same name was screened by the Cinema Society for a select crowd at the Loews 19th Street Tuesday night.
The book was originally made into a series on PBS in the 1980s.
The movie is set is the English countryside before World War II. The backdrop is one of the most impressive houses ever built, called Brideshead.
The story centers around Charles Ryder, an Oxford University student of middle-class background that is taken up by the aristocratic brother and sister that grew up at Brideshead. Ryder is brought to the big screen by Mathew Goode.
George Whipple: Do you think it is possible for a man to be in love with another man and not be gay?
Matthew Goode: Yeah, I think it's very much likely. I mean, I think it's one thing that you go through when you're 18, when suddenly your friends at that particular juncture start getting girlfriends and you're like, "I miss my friend, what's he doing?" You're suddenly going, "Maybe I'm gay!"
Hayley Atwell plays the sister and love interest at Brideshead.
Whipple: What was it like to play in that?
Hayley Atwell: Complicated. It's a very complicated thing, but I think love is when it involves romance and involves the huge kind of, the Catholic church and faith and religion and grandeur at Brideshead itself, the house, so within all of those things it makes for quite an epic romantic tale.
Julian Jarrold directed the film.
GW: "Were you influenced at all by the mini-series, the PBS series of the 1980's?"
"The whole point really was to try to make it for now and for people who don't know about 'Brideshead' and, you know, a whole generation of people, certainly in England, and I'm sure in America really know that it's such a fantastic novel, such a great story and such vivid characters really," said Jarrold.
"Brideshead Revisited' is in theaters this weekend.
- George Whipple
July 23, 2008
Cinema Society Holds Special Screening Of "Brideshead Revisited"
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