Loved this movie, but I have to admit I am a bit biased having lived in England for three years. The cinematography is stunning and the acting is done to a very high standard. That being said, if you're looking for a pat cheerful ending (and I'm not sure how anyone, having scene the previews, could be confused about the film's mood, but...) this is not the movie for you.

I am not a movie expert by any means but Brideshead Revisited was a much more enjoyable film for my girlfriend and I to watch then The Dark Knight. For me a film needs to have story line that I can believe and follow in some kind of logical way. It is also very nice to take a break from the explosions and violence that is in so many movies these days. Many years ago I enjoyed a film called Room With A View. Brideshead Revisited was a nice movie.

lOVED THIS MOVIE AS i AM A PERIOD DRAMA FAN ANYWAY. tHIS IS FILMED ON LOCATION AT HOWARDS CASTLE IN YORKSHIRIE THE SAME PLACE AS THE BBC ADAPTAION OF THE BOOK. NICE VIEWS OF YORKSHIRE,OXFORD UNIVERSITY ,VENICE AND MOROCCO. seT IN BRITAIN JUST BEFORE WORLD WAR . STRONG MAIN CHARACTERS BUT PERIFERAL CHARACTERS NOT DEVELOPED ENOUGH BUT VERY WELL DONE IN THE TIME LIMITATION OF A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE. I WILL DEFINATELY WATCH IT AGAIN . EMMA THOMPSON WAS EXCELLENT.

For anyone who loved either the novel or the 11 part 1981 BBC series, this will come as a disappointment. There is no time in less than two hours to portray neither the languid--in a good sense--quality of life at Oxford nor the nature of non-sexual "romantic friendships" between college boys in those days. Also, Emma Thompson, great actress that she is was entire too rigid to be attractive to anyone. She comes across as a Mother Superior in aristocratic finery. Very one note and that note rings as "YOU ARE BAD". Claire Bloom in the series had beauty and a "toffee nosed" charm as her weapons. In all, it was not a moving film with none of the heart wrenching quality that was in the book and the series. And to top it all, Charles Ryder is made out to be the villain of the piece rather than the victim. Seeing Castle Howard in Yorkshire again was a pleasure. It is always stunning to try and translate the amount of money it must have cost to build in the early 17th C. into current values

I read the reviews before I went and almost didn't go! I was so glad I did! A little slow....but...great message....and if you really analyze it...his thoughts in the end were perfect! "Raise up a child".....