The new adaptation of the novel Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, directed by Julian Jarrold and released in the United States on July 25, has a long sequence shot in Venice, with a Carnival and even a fatal kiss between Julia and Charles, that upsets Sebastian.
Jeffrey Gantz [The Phoenix] imagines an “impossible interview” between Waugh and himself, where the writer appears very surprised that Julia follows her brother Sebastian and his best friend Charles in Italy [“Julia goes to Venice with Sebastian and Charles?” / “- to visit the Flytes’ father, Lord Marchmain (…) and there’s some kind of Carnival –“ / “In Venice in the summer?”].
The 11 hours Granada TV adaptation, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and then Charles Sturridge, where hardly a line is not in the book, ran in Great Britain in 1981, and then as part of PBS’s Great Performances early in 1982. The series is considered as one of the most memorable television productions of the eighties.
Many famous landmarks appear in the exterior sequence where Sebastian takes Charles on a sight-seen tour. The two great ecclesiastical interiors they visit are the Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari and the Scuola di San Rocco. The scenes set in Lord Marchmain's Venetian residence were filmed in the 15th-century Palazzo Barbaro, owned by the Curtis family of Boston since 1880s. The Palazzo's distinguished guests from that period include Claude Monet, John Singer Sargent, William and Henry James.
* trailer and site
- article by A. O. Scott (The New York Times)
- article by Jeffrey Gantz (The Phoenix)
[Italian cities on screen - post 2 b]
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