Brideshead Revisited

2008 · 133 min · EN · PG-13 · 6.3 (171 votes)

Dir. Julian Jarrold · Starring Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Hayley Atwell, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide · Music Adrian Johnston

“Privilege. Ambition. Desire. At Brideshead everything comes at a price.”

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Befriended by aristocrat Sebastian Flyte, Oxford student Charles Ryder finds that the power and privilege experienced by the family is seductive. On a visit to the ancestral home, Brideshead, he falls in love with his friend's sister, Julia. However, as his ties to the Flytes deepen, Ryder finds himself at odds with their strong Roman Catholicism.

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A lush, elegiac journey through lost youth and fading aristocracy. It's a visually stunning, emotionally resonant exploration of love, faith, and the bittersweet ache of memory, set against grand English estates and sun-drenched Italian landscapes.

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