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The Way We Live Now

starring: Matthew Macfadyen, Paloma Baeza, Cheryl Campbell, Shirley Henderson, Douglas Hodge
directed by: David Yates (II)

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790766126
Format: Closed-captioned, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790766124
Label: BBC Video
Manufacturer: BBC Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: BBC Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 30, 2002
Running Time: 300 minutes
Sales Rank: 6957
Studio: BBC Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2001



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Product Description:
The Way We Live Now captures the turmoil as the old order is swept aside by the brash new forces of business and finance. Based on the novel by Anthony Trollope this satire of Victorian society contains the trials and tribulations of young love the pettiness of the upper class life the raw energy and excitement of the most powerful city the world had ever seen and the greed and corruption that lay just below its glittering surface.Running Time: 300 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 794051162021 Manufacturer No: E1620

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First screened on BBC in 2001, The Way We Live Now will surprise those who know Anthony Trollope through the subtleties of his Barsetshire novels. This story of ambition centers around Augustus Melmotte, an Austrian Jewish financier who takes the London money markets and social scene by storm in his efforts to become an 'English country gentleman.' His rise and fall is followed with remorseless logic by Trollope, and David Yates's direction keeps this in focus against a wealth of subplots and character interaction.

The cast is a strong one, with David Suchet's Melmotte gripping in his recklessness, climaxing in the theatrical magnificence of his departure in disgrace from the House of Commons. Shirley Henderson is magnetic as his put-upon daughter Marie, courted by the cream-of-society bachelors for her dowry rather than her person. Cheryl Campbell gives a good account of the feckless Lady Carbury, writing vacuous novels to support her family, with Matthew MacFadyen relishing the part of her rakish son, Felix. Paloma Baeza is sympathetic as her daughter, Hetta, whose on-off relationship with entrepreneur Paul Montague, ably taken by Cillian Murphy, provides the main love interest. Douglas Hodge impresses as the loyal and sincere but insipid Roger Carbury.

The series consists of four generous episodes, each lasting 75 minutes. This is an absorbing production of what isn't the most subtle of Victorian novels, but which surely remains among the most relevant. --Richard Whitehouse



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Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Don't Buy This DVD!
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Fabulous!
This is an excellent production. The acting by both Matthew McFadden and David Suchet along with a brilliant supporting ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A well-acted, albeit condensed version of Anthony Trollope's work.
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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - See the Film/Read the Book!
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