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'Head' of the class
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Pacific Sun
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July 25, 2008
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'Head' of the class
The sun sets on effete English upper crust...
Even if it didn't have a superb cast and breathtaking settings, Brideshead Revisited, with its tale of effete pre-war English aristos, would be irresistible. Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies and directed by Julian Jarrold (Becoming Jane, TV's Great Expectations), it's a tragic-and timeless-tale of the collision of religious fanaticism and freedom of spirit. Guess which one wins.
Charles Ryder (Match Point's Matthew Goode), a naive first-year Oxford student and aspiring painter, is flattered to be taken into the snobbish, sexually ambiguous circle of Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw) and invited, ...
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