Introducing Brideshead Revisited

01-10-2008 15:20

This week sees the release of another British period piece as director Julian Jarrold, who brought us Becoming Jane, takes on Brideshead Revisited.

The story begins in1925 at Oxford, when Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) is befriended by the louche and flamboyant Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw), son of Lord Marchmain, and is quickly seduced by an exciting new world of money, glamour and outrageous behaviour.

When he is invited to Brideshead the Flyte family’s magnificent ancestral home, Charles becomes infatuated with Julia (Hayley Atwell), Sebastian’s beautiful sister.

But as Charles’s emotional relationship with the Marchmain family deepens, he finds himself continually at odds with their deepest family bond, that of their overpowering Catholic faith.

Charles Ryder - Matthew Goode

Charles Ryder is of middle class standing studying at Oxford University but while serving in the British Army during the waning days of World War II, Charles is assigned to a temporary base set up on the estate of the wealthy and aristocratic Flyte family, where he strikes up a friendship with twentysomething Lord Sebastian .

Charles finds himself captivated by their world of privilege and finds himself being draw into their family while becoming infatuated with Sebastian's sister, Julia.

But he senses that his relationship with Sebastian may be deeper than just simply friendship.

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