Bleak House
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Movie Reviews of Bleak House
Movie Review: Gorgeous work of art!
Summary: 5 Stars
Although it would be difficult to go wrong with Charles Dickens, this series offers more than just a wonderful story brought to moving picture life! To describe it with adjectives, I would use words like beautiful, stunning, intriguing, engrossing, artistic, breathtaking, mysterious, strong, and perfect. This is a visual, sonic masterpiece closely depicting an enduring literary classic. The screen writing, direction, casting, acting, cinematography, costume and set design, music, dialogue, character development, and story line deserve stellar ratings!
As a professional photographer, I found nearly every scene to be gorgeously and artistically composed, and very inspiring for my own work.
The first time I viewed this version of Bleak House, I watched it through from start to finish in two days--I was completely hooked. I loved it so much I began watching it again right away, and I have since purchased a copy for myself!
If you enjoy intelligent period films, beautiful performances, and classic stories, you will not be disappointed with Bleak House, directed by Justin Chadwick and Susanna White.
Movie Review: Another spectacular offering from the BBC
Summary: 5 Stars
The BBC's 2005 remake of Charles Dickens's Bleak House leaves little to be desired. There is a wonderful cast, featuring great talents such as Charles Dance, Gillian Anderson, and newcomer Anna Maxwell Martin, who all put in fantastic performances. Even better, the script is written by the ultimate BBC dramatizer, the incomparable Andrew Davies.
Bleak House is both a Victorian drama and murder mystery, centering on the Court of Chancery's Jarndyce & Jarndyce, a settlement case which has garnered and ultimately crushed dreams and expectations through its long and trying duration. In the mean time its proceeds are being steadily dried up by both court costs and greedy lawyers. The movie also tells the story of Lady Dedlock, an aristocratic beauty, whose secret past threatens to destroy an entire family legacy.
Bleak House is wonderfully entertaining and I highly recommend it to everyone who likes period pieces and murder mysteries. It is a bit on the dark side, but it contains a wonderful script, sets, costumes, and acting.
Movie Review: Top notch BBC drama adaptation
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this when it aired on television, and I was so compelled by the richness and authenticity of the writing, characters, and sets - that I had to purchase this to see again and again. I had a friend over the other night and we watched the first couple hours of it, and there is always something I get when I see it again that I missed before. Andrew Davies' writing is as true to the original as ever, and the acting is superb. The scenery, sets, every detail - gives one the sense of being there with the characters and having a much deeper understanding of what it was like to live in London and its outskirts during that era. For anyone who is a Dickens fan, or even likes a good mystery - this series draws you in more and more with every episode.You have characters you love and others you love to hate. Give it a go if you haven't watched it. It is a masterpiece commentary on class struggle and the limitations set upon people by "propriety" and on the harsh life of the lower classes, whom Dickens wrote and fought for in many of is works.Movie Review: A Classic Comes Alive
Summary: 5 Stars
The producers of this fine mini-series have done a remarkable job in turning Dickens's 989-page (in my Penquin edition) novel into a visual and historical treat. The characters come alive, dressed and coifed and speaking in the style of Dickens's day; and one feels he/she is watching a period of old England first hand. The entire cast performs brilliantly; there is not a false note to be seen.
Dickens touches on many of the social problems of the time-poverty, child labor, predatory lawyers, indifferent courts, an almost unbreakable caste system. It is to the credit of the producers that they were able to blend so many of these facets into their story-telling. Some are only touched on, but they make the production whole.
There are three discs, covering 7+ hours, but they are broken up into the form of the mini-series, so that they can be viewed over a period of time.
This is a most worthwhile choice for watching, and if it makes the viewer want to read the book, all the better!
Movie Review: Dickens at his best
Summary: 5 Stars
This marvellous set of 3 discs contains 15 episodes of the brilliant BBC production of Bleak House by Charles Dickens. The cast is superb and includes some of the biggest luminaries of the British screen, with a well known face appearing in every scene. As one example of this plethora of talent, Sheila Hancock is almost unrecognizable in a small role as Mrs. Guppy, mother of the articled clerk at the law firm which handles the affairs of the main characters,and is shown as a simpering, giggling old harridan and is stunningly good! The settings for this drama are particularly good with lowered lighting and brown furniture which gives an almost sepia atmosphere, while the villians are repulsively bad with excellent make up and costumes, and the heros and heroines appear several times in the same dresses and suits, which is more likely to be true than not. It's a wonderfully done adaptation of a Dickens novel which both Dickens devotees and just plain lovers of good film, will thoroughly enjoy.