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Vanity Fair [DVD]
enlarge	Director: Marc Munden Actors: Natasha Little, Frances Gray, Tom Ward, Nathanial Parker, Jeremy Swift Studio: 2 Entertain Video Category: DVD List Price: ~~£19.99~~ Buy New: £2.50 as of 24/11/2009 01:56 GMT details You Save: £17.49 (87%) New (24) Used (5) from £2.50 Seller: enigmadirect Rating: 14 reviews Sales Rank: 3513 Format: PAL Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language) Rating: Parental Guidance Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Number Of Discs: 2 Running Time: 325 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5014503171223 ASIN: B0009WL8OG Theatrical Release Date: 1998 Release Date: July 4, 2005 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 14 1 2 3 Next » The BBC comes up with the goods! June 3, 2006 Reviewer (Ireland) 17 out of 17 found this review helpful This excellent 6 part miniseries of WM Thackeray's masterpiece really delivers. Natasha Little has the right mixture of beauty and guile to convince as Becky Sharp. Nothing is overplayed in her superb central performance. The rest of the roles are perfectly cast too. Any fan of the book will not be disappointed. br / The miniseries is stylishly filmed. Parade-like music captures the mood of the piece wonderfully. Noone quite does period drama like the BBC! Finally on DVD July 4, 2005 pseudopanax (London) 39 out of 41 found this review helpful The long overdue release of the Marc Munden's quirky production of Thackeray's Vanity Fair is something to celebrate. After the unsatisfying big screen adaptation by Mira Nair in 2004, this version with its jarringly beautiful score and precise characterisations from Natasha Little, Frances Grey, David Bradley and Miriam Margolyes, to name but a few, is a welcome antidote to the brighter and more firmly mainstream BBC adaptations of other 19th century novels such as Wives and Daughters and Middlemarch. Munden takes Andrew Davies' script and confidently stamps it with his own vision, which is by turns viciously bitter or brightly comic yet marvellously consistent with the novel. The ending is disappointing, as with so many of Davies' adaptations, he just seems to run out of steam by the end. Nonetheless, this underrated series is one of the best of the BBC's literary adaptations. An excellent adaptation September 6, 2005 23 out of 24 found this review helpful Vanity Fair is an excellent BBC adapation, worthy of note. Perhaps even comparable to Pride and Prejudice. The screenplay is quite different, which lends itself more to W.M. Thackery's slighty less glowing vision (than Austen's) of English society. It seems quite surprising that it has not met more popular demand. The acting is quite superb and will keep you riveted to your seat (probably for the full 321 mins!). If the new adaptation with Witherspoon et al is a Morris Minor, then this is a Bentley. Fabulous August 19, 2007 Bezzer (England) 8 out of 8 found this review helpful I can quite understand why some people don't warm to this adaptation of the book - it's very bold and 'in your face'. That, however, is very much in keeping with the style of the novel. I feel sure that Thackeray would have been delighted with the way his characters have been brought to life! In both the novel and this TV series, they are not so much characters as caricatures - they are designed to be 'over the top' and unrealistic. That is how Thackeray gets across his message - the greed, artificiality and hypocrisy of polite society in the 19th century. br / br /This TV adaptation does indeed have a 'cop out' ending but Thackeray's own treatment of this area was not consistent - he shies away from actually confirming Becky as being guilty of this final crime as though that was a bit too much even for him! I don't think this detracts from the quality of the adaptation at all. br / br /This is a richly filmed, brilliantly acted and hysterically funny series that I think is a 'must see'. Loved it! June 6, 2006 N. T. Diep (London - UK) 7 out of 7 found this review helpful Great casting/acting/costume/background, in fact great everything! Stuck close to original book. My only criticism is that awful music no DVD extras e.g. interview/making of, etc. Showing reviews 1-5 of 14 1 2 3 Next »

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