Brideshead Revisited

I went to see Brideshead Revisited untainted because I had never seen any other productions of it in any form, whether book, film, play, or as part of an Eskimo mime extravaganza. I'm sure that many others who see this latest version will inevitably compare it to their previous experiences with it. How it compares, I have not a clue. What I do know is that "Brideshead Revisited" is based on the grand and epic novel by Evelyn Waugh, originally published in 1945. That is where my pre-existing knowledge ends. The setting is England, in between the two world wars. Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) is a young man of modest means who is off to his first year of university. Many of his fellow students have come here from a place much higher in the pecking order of wealth and "breeding". Through a chance encounter he is absorbed into a... [read full story]