Tom Stoppard ambitiously adapted (some of) four novels (written 1924-1928) of Ford Madox Ford to create this splendid five-parter, featuring two towering performances from Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall. White made many of the Bleak House series, and makes a motif out of reflections in this. Striking scenes, and a particularly distinctive view of WW1 as a mixture of requisition foul-ups, orders cancelled, petty rivalries and insane behaviour in the trenches.
Adelaide Clemens is our spirited Women's Libber. With Roger Allum (funny when shouty), Rupert Everett (good), Miranda Richardson, Stephen Graham ambitiously cast as the Scottish friend, Janet McTeer, Anne-Marie Duff, Rufus Sewell, Freddie Fox.
Tietjens is a great name.
Photographed by Mike Eley (The Selfish Giant) and edited by Jason Krasucki, Kristina Heatherington and Tim Murrell (Any Human Heart).
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