Brideshead Revisited

Striking photography highlights this somber, long-winded film based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 romantic novel in which an Oxford art student (Matthew Goode) forms an unlikely friendship with a gay, flamboyant alcoholic (Ben Whishaw) in 1920s England, but when he meets the rest of the family, including the stern, snobbish, controlling, Catholicism-obsessed mother (Emma Thompson), who is estranged from her husband (Michael Gambon) living in Venice with his mistress (Greta Scacchi), and his attractive sister (Hayley Atwell), the friendship quickly sours.
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