Fountain Theatre Schedule
Screenings daily 7:30 p.m. ?Sunday matinee 2:30 p.m.
The Fountain Theatre ?2469 Calle De Guadalupe ?Mesilla, NM ?575.524.8287
Oct. 17-23
Brideshead Revisited
Dir: Julian Jarrold, (UK), 2008,
133 min. English
Julian Jarrold joins screenwriters Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies in boiling Brideshead down to three central characters: Julia Flyte, the eldest daughter of a wealthy Catholic family; her brother Sebastian, the family's bibulous black sheep; and Charles Ryder, a middle-class Londoner who becomes entranced by the Flytes' wealth and sophistication after he meets Sebastian at Oxford. But Lady Marchmain (Emma Thompson), Sebastian and Julia's mother, wants nothing to do with Charles, less because of his untitled origins than his avowed atheism. As far as she is concerned, her family is composed of devout Catholics, even though her husband (Michael Gambon) lives in Venice with his Italian mistress (Greta Scacchi), Sebastian is gay, and Julia is a self-identified "half-heathen." In Lady Marchmain's hands, Catholicism is a lethal weapon. But the movie takes the comforting power of faith as seriously as its power to destroy. It's rare to find a work that explores issues of faith without veering into religious fundamentalism or militant atheism, which is reason enough to revisit Brideshead one more time. Sam Adams, The Onion.
