Dull adaptation of dull story. Good cast fails to ignite material. Even the house (Castle Howard, York) is dull. With Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Hayley Atwell, Patrick Malahide, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Anna Madeley, Felicity Jones, Greta Scacchi.
Jess Hall shot it, Adrian Johnston provided the music, Chris Gill edited. It was written by Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock.
I remember when William Boyd adapted 'Sword of Honour' he left out the Catholicism because it was 'boring'. The same problem affects this story, but it's so fundamental to it, you can't leave it out. I wonder why they remade it?
Interesting to read it was initially to be a David Yates film with Jude Law as Sebastian (can see that working better) with Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly.
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