Well I am just revisiting it in all its glory. I have bought the 11 episodes of the series remastered. I cannot believe I watched it 34 years ago. Looking back I do not think I thought the two main characters were gay, just good friends. I must have been very naive and I remember a few years later when our daughter worked in tourism she shared an apartment with a gay rep. I remember saying well he is the first gay men I know. How ridiculous is that statement but it does show in my life time how openness about sexuality has changed and for the better I am relieved to say.
On the big screen Castle Howard looks as fabulous as it is, the old cars, the costumes are all reminiscent of Downton Abbey. The writing of Evelyn Waugh is what makes this book and film really special. Not forgetting the wonderful performances by Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews, both beautiful and elegant young men.
The only connection I can make with France is that Jeremy Irons playing Charles Ryder after his years uncompleted at Oxford goes to a Paris academy to complete his art education.
If anyone would like to revisit as well let me know and we will arrange some viewings.
Brideshead Revisited is a 1981 British television serial produced byGranada Television for broadcast by the ITV network. The serial is an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited (1945). Although John Mortimer was given a credit in the titles, Valerie Grove'sA Voyage Round John Mortimer revealed that Mortimer's script was never used and that the series was actually written by the producer Derek Granger and others. The bulk of the serial was directed byCharles Sturridge, with a few sequences filmed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
Broadcast in eleven episodes, the serial premiered on ITV in the UK on 12 October 1981
