Julian Jarrold On Brideshead Revisited - page 2

03 October 2008

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'I much prefer filming on location than in a studio I like to be in real places, although they offer you constraints, they absolutely make you understand how people behave it's like getting the right period costume that makes you stand in a certain way.

'The cast going to Castle Howard and standing in these enormous halls and echoy corridors and sumptuous bedrooms I think it gave it a real sense of what it was like to be to the manor born and to be an aristocrat, and for Charles as well to come into this world and think 'gosh how beautiful i want a part of that' it made all the difference.'

'But there were constantly issues you didn't want to back the camera into a priceless statue or break some mirror that had been there for hundreds of years so everyone always got worried when they were moving light around, I think there was one minor breakage.

'The other thing was we would be filming in one wing and the tourist would be filing around the other and sometimes we would meet in the middle but generally it was fairly well choreographed.'

A strength of the film is the cinematography and Julian worked with his design team to give two distinct feeling to the film for the audience.

'I worked very closely with the director of cinematography and we wanted to, in the first half really, we wanted this beautiful beguiling image of Castle Howard that attracts Charles, and attracts the audience, into this world like a magical kingdom.

'Then in the second half we wanted to reflect the tensions and dysfunctions at the heart of the family and you get a much colder more claustrophobic and more sinister feel and that was very much reflected in the cinematography.'

After three projects that have made it onto the big screen Julian is returning to his television roots for his next project.

'I have just finished filming a dark, noirish thriller for channel 4, which is part of the Red Riding Quartet by novelist David Pearce, that's coming out in the spring and it's very different to Brideshead.'

Brideshead Revisited is released 3rd October

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