Avis sur le produitA Handful of Dust (DVD, 2004)

A rare screen adaptation

Evelyn Waugh, like his contemporary Graham Greene, has spotty success when screen adaptations of their novels are transferred to motion pictures. Here, Charles Sturridge's direction leaves much of the class issues aside and makes a frank romantic melodrama that manages to score some of Waugh's points. Rather than trying to overwhelm us with production values and impress us with the lives of the aristocracy, everything is matter-of-fact. Kristen Scott Thomas' Brenda is a case in point. We're only barely aware of her role in society, yet her fall manages to be both tragic and a scandal. Many of the supporting characters assist in making the tone of the film a success. Everyone seems to go about their lives within the pre-War class system without making much of a point about it. A callow Rupert Graves is the only person who doesn't get much empathy here, and James Wilby's Tony Last is a heart-wrenching "last" of his generation. This film has only improved since it's 1988 premiere.Lire l'avis complet...

A Handful of Dust

Always interested in movies set in this period.... between the wars British life.... Evelyn Waugh's novel of the upper classes and the breakdown of a marriage and it's consequences in three people and the estate. Excellent performances by the three principal actors (Scott-Thomas, Wilby, and Graves), beautiful costumes (Academy Award nominee), but the drama moves at a slow endless pace, somehow leaving me feeling time could be better spent.Lire l'avis complet...

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