Brideshead Revisited - Cara talks of love. & Rain in Venice.

[@Abrumador8]

How impressive is the sweetness of Cara's face, and her voice while she states bluntly truths so radical, so difficult to swalow by the characters she refers to. Beautifully, wonderfully performed.

[@Billy-dj8zw]

Exactly. She was precise as a surgeon.

[@Hammerton32]

Stephane Audran - beauty and an excellent actress!

[@barkebaat]

Good evening, Tietjens. How pleased to see you still among us. Not that you will ever cease to be so, in one form or another. But still... good. Tank you.

[@christophemarcelis3965]

La plus belle scène de la série. Le bruit des bateaux sur le grand canal, la lumière gris- argent de Venise un jour de pluie, la beauté des lieux, palais vénitien au charme inégalable, et l’élégance des personnages, élégance jusque dans leurs échanges... la musique achève d’élever dans la grâce cette scène d’un autre temps... Stéphane Audran est parfaite de justesse, comme elle savait l’être. Il faut la voir dans un autre film, " le festin de Babette" où elle élève son art à un sommet de subtilité absolument délicieux et avec très peu de dialogues, ce qui est une performance... Hommages à cette grande dame et actrice française ...

[@wkcty]

Cara is the porte parole for Waugh, or a kind of chorus echoing or confirming the rest of the drama for us.

[@roried]

Every scene in "Brideshead Revisited" is a masterpiece unto itself. The story, the script, the acting, the scenery, the sets, the costumes, the cinematography, the music........everything about it, sheer perfection. They don't make 'em like this anymore, folks, Every student of film, theater, and television production should watch and study this British presentation, for it sets the standard for excellence. And, oh, that Cara....wise beyond her years, and so beautiful.

[@eugeneclasby518]

You said it. Wish I had. Well done!!

[@Billy-dj8zw]

This is my favorite scene in the entire series. CARA is a complex character, much wiser than what one would expect.

[@thomasnicholls8610]

As I get older, I realize that Cara's wisdom actually comes naturally with age

[@barkebaat]

2:32 : "When people hate with all that energy, it's something in themselves they are hating."

[@bodsnvimto]

It's just dawned on me whilst watching this, 40 or so years on, that the Venice trip was the pivot for the first half of this book/series. The utter sunbaked "drowning in honey, skinless" joy on the Grand Canal to the rainy omen and wise insight of Cara as to the future. Such brilliance.

[@joisarpayal81]

Totally obsessed by this series. I can't help sobbing each time I watch the series. In the 2nd part , I kept waiting for Sebastian to come back and the two friends, who loved each other so much, reunite

[@bodsnvimto]

I too love this series. Don't you think that the theme tune sounds both upbeat for the happy episodes and downbeat for the depressing ones? I'm no musician, so wouldn't clearly be able to pick all major and/or minor chords, but the only other theme tune to give me that feeling was/still is in guilty YT moments as a 60yr-old, Camberwick Green. So happy when he or she is coming up at the start, so sad when descending at the end(ing if you want it to rhyme...with what I'm sending).

[@Kate1Chopin]

Stepanne Audran, one of the greatest actors in French cinema. I have seen all of her work but this which I will see. I can't believe she has gone. RIP la belle Stephane. 💕💕xx

[@forbesgordon1112]

Anne Marie Callaghan she’s a beautiful soul.

[@dfreemanbooks]

I never tire of this series (or the novel). Just about every moment is sublime and far better than hours of what passes for TV today. It lingers with you for years- all the love, loss, and sadness we each experience rendered so beautifully. “If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...”

[@Billy-dj8zw]

I am obsessed by this series. It is my favorite, ever.

[@haidermeerza7215]

So am I. Totally obsessed 😍

[@karenlgeraghty]

this is totally beautiful, the dialogue the music, venice.

[@bodsnvimto]

WOW! Such a powerful scene, and one which sets forth Sebastian's future in poetic but truly sad terms.

[@spide429]

One of my favorite scenes from this amazing adaptation, and an illuminating portrait of the conventions of the time. English boys tended to have these kinds of friendships. Look at "Maurice" and "Another Country" of the same periods...

[@mirandacadena]

Just “friendships”?? They were in love, c’mon😭

[@katyaalbescu3913]

​@@mirandacadena totally

[@MrsPhillips-e6j]

They had no knowlege of females at all. No access to them, and subsequently they feared and despised females - which - continued throughout their lives. Despite that, they'd marry one, have children, and then go back to what was familiar to them. Relationships with men of their own boarding school days

[@exaudi33]

Boys of cultured backgrounds who attended the public schools (Eton, et al) had the context for it.

[@benfel9403]

As a new author with only one book under my belt, I can only ever dream of writing like EW. Even if I become a long term best-seller I think I always fall far short of this level. One of the greats. The line about Lady M buying coloured paints and every time she mixed them they came out khaki. What a way to demonstrate so much of a person's personality in one sentence! Breathtaking.

[@PhilipFiacco-p6r]

Yes, the book has anything you could need to know about writing.

[@exaudi33]

So many passages to love in BR. For me, the last lines are euphoric: "Something quite remote from anything the builders intended, has come out of their work, and out of the fierce little human tragedy in which I played; something none of us thought about at the time; a small red flame - a beaten-copper lamp of deplorable design relit before the beaten-copper doors of a tabernacle; the flame which the old knights saw from their tombs, which they saw put out; that flame burns again for other soldiers, far from home, farther, in heart, than Acre or Jerusalem. It could not have been lit but for the builders and the tragedians, and there I found it this morning, burning anew among the old stones."

[@kevinchambers1101]

This was truly an exquisite production with wonderful acting.

[@KL0098]

The cinematography outside the hotel is gorgeous! And the dialogue is very sharp and subtle. I have to watch it.

[@harrysgf_real]

The last shot of them standing together looking out over the sea is pretty moving, especially given that everything begins to go downhill from there.

[@57monks]

@JoeGartziarena You are absolutely right! I love this scene so much because of the fabulous Stephanie Audran - what class, what understated beauty and elegance, what tender insight and understanding. I was blown away by Claire Bloom for the same qualities, although of course her character was nowhere near the worldly wise, insightful Cara. Can you imagine a scene between these 2 amazing actresses, recognizing, of course, the impossibility of it? Dialogue between them would be celestial music!

[@James-h3r8l]

I love this, Cara is beautiful! I wish I could meet someone like Charles....though these kind of people are gone now. I love how they walk down the steps together, how Cara holds her purse and each step in sync.....just beautiful!!

[@javiergarciaflorez9822]

Cara es magnífica.pone las cosas en su sitio

[@benbisley]

This remarkable woman has a spot-on analysis of the Marchmain problem. She sees that Lady M may be manipulative, may find refuge in religiosity; but she surely doesn't deserve the hate she receives. As Cordelia says: "I never really loved her. Not as she wanted or deserved. I think that when people wanted to hate God they hated mummy. . . When they want to hate Him . . . they have to find something like themselves and pretend it's God and hate that."

[@benfel9403]

EW's emotional insight, writing and understanding of the human condition for a man of his class and time is utterly astounding!

[@MrsPhillips-e6j]

Deep.

[@mikegalvin9801]

She's right about "the way Sebastián drinks" vs Charles youthful fun loving.

[@javiergarciaflorez2103]

Esta Cara muy puesta realizando sus labores

[@luisruedaoropeza]

Exquisito dialogo, maravillosas imágenes, espléndida historia....añoranza de una vida ida.

[@benfel9403]

Why is it whatever you Italians say, it always sounds like great poetry!

[@bigbong620]

The wonderful Stéphane Audran. RIP

[@stevendaniel8126]

She is/was sooooo elegant.

[@emma41093]

Such genius to have the mistress sympathise, and I mean to sincerely sympathise/pity, the wife - especially when the wife is the vilified Lady Marchmain. Normally it is the scorned wife who pities the mistress.

[@ed95755]

Cara is very wise

[@EmersetFarquharson]

_I grow old ... I grow old ..._ _I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled._ _Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?_ _I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach._ _I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each._ _I do not think that they will sing to me._ _I have seen them riding seaward on the waves_ _Combing the white hair of the waves blown back_ _When the wind blows the water white and black._ _We have lingered in the chambers of the sea_ _By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown_ _Till human voices wake us, and we drown._ - excerpt from _The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock_ by T. S. Eliot

[@xingsheng1]

What is with Venice? I saw movies like "Death in Venice", "Don't look now", here again, in Venice, We can not help but sense the chilling proximity of Sebastian's impending doom. Venice makes me shiver.

[@javiergarciaflorez2103]

May mother❤

[@javiergarciaflorez2103]

Que magnífica lección de cara.

[@javiergarciaflorez2103]

Sebastián 😢 es un niño precioso.protegido por un espíritu maligno qué representa en la serie si querida madre.un saludo

[@beardo373]

We really have no name for "romantic friendship" today. Yet this clip illustrates exactly what the religious right fears about the "gay agenda." Namely, young fellows like Charles and Sebastian will recognize their romantic friendship, call it homosexuality, label themselves as such, and move to San Francisco. I saw this film as a child, before I knew I was gay. If I had realized it then, I think I woudn't have felt so alone.

[@simoom37]

@57monks Stephane is so beautiful & such a great actress even though few people consider her here in France. In fact it is true she hasn't played THAT much or did not play a huge comemercial role. Even ageing she remains an extremely beautiful lady

[@damianop100]

So beautiful and moving. This is one of my favorite scenes in the series. I adore Stephane Audran, the actress here who so wonderfully plays Cara. When Cara asks Charles, "Do you think he (Lord Marchmain) loves me?" and then explains that he does not, I wish Charles had replied to Cara, "Then why do you stay with him?" But he didn't. Instead he asks, "But then why does he stay with you?" If Charles had asked Cara why she stays with Lord Marchmain, what do you think she would have said?

[@damianop100]

PS: Referring to Lady Marchmain, Cara says, "And how has she deserved all this hate? She's done nothing except to be loved by someone who was not grown up." Oh I think Cara's mistaken here. Lady Marchmain, at least as portrayed (marvelously!) by Claire Bloom, was a cold, rigid, dogmatic, unfeeling person, ruthless and judgemental. I can certainly see why Lord Marchmain and Sebastian grew to hate her.

[@helenryan5217]

I suspect Cara stays with him because he needs her.

[@helenryan5217]

​@@damianop100But she's not malicious. She thinks she is doing what is best for the people she loves most. That it makes them miserable is unfortunate, not her intention.

[@damianop100]

@@helenryan5217 How do you know what her intentions were? We can only infer from her speech and behavior. Both Sebastian and Lord Marchmain hated her and for good reason. If she did not understand this and why this was so, then maybe she didn't want to understand. You cannot absolve her rigid judgmental behavior simply by claiming it was not her intention to hurt her family. That kind of "logic" let's horrible people off the hook. And she appeared to be a horrible person, well aware of the effect she had on people, and extremely selfish.

[@helenryan5217]

I don't think you understand her kind of religion. It doesn't value earthly happiness. It is fixed on what it believes to be eternal. Lady Marchmain's concern is their souls.​@damianop100

[@nedks11]

Whilst the show does a rather good job, I implore anyone to read the book version of this scene, as it is far more powerful.

[@stephenconlon653]

When someone hates you, it often means that they want to be like you

[@eliovegani]

Hating Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels doesn't mean that you want to be like them.

[@javiergarciaflorez2103]

❤❤❤😊😊😊

[@lisabelmontage]

I love the costumes and acting. Was it filmed in Venice?

[@javiergarciaflorez2103]

Es todo la serie un Inglés ,y afrancesado qué reprime sus propias miserias😢

[@Justfilloutthe111111]

Oh Cara...

[@newmark401]

Indeed, and how would she define "too long", I wonder?

[@beatrizbecker3728]

A bit late to answer :D I would venture to say that she does not think of "too long" in chronological terms; I think she means a romantic friendship should not last up to the point where it takes so much space in a man's feelings that it discourages the man to start taking an interest in women.

[@e.jenima7263]

Although i like the 2008 vershion ..I like Carla in this one, she seems a creature of more depth , Gentleness but blunt insight. but of course the main differences between the 2 versions are this is a BBC Miniseries front the 80;s so of course the TV series will stay with the source material will stick to the book down to the last line and the 2008 version was a feature film.

[@spide429]

@BernardProfitendieu I was merely stating that this type of relationship was illuminated very well in the adaptation. I do not live in a fantasy world even though I'm gay. Of course gay people existed. It's just that this type of relationship wasn't so black and white. Sebastian remained homosexual. Charles did not. Btw, you're REALLY handsome.......

[@marysueeasteregg]

Years ago, I got in a polite online argument (on KZbin? I don't remember the platform) with someone who was adamant that Sebastian was not homosexual. Probably regarding the book, rather than this series. The poster -- I'm pretty sure it was a he -- could not be convinced otherwise. It is obvious, even without knowing that Waugh had homosexual affairs while at Oxford.

[@klauswagner7608]

Die göttliche Stephane Audrant. Herrlich. Ihre leider letzte große Rolle.

[@idefix99]

wow, what a nice eve's apple Ms. Audran has. wonderfull shape and very pointed

[@holmsatlarge]

Cara`s understanding is tainted by her Latin background.She is unfamiliar with the background of the characters.Lady Marchmain`s venration of her dead brothers would be a great part of Lord Marchmain`s distaste for his wife.The slight taste we get of her devotion to them can be imagined as more intense for Lord Marchmain.I think after years of comparison to her "sainted" brothers, his turning to drink and oblivion,to his leaving her was to be expected.In war he found freedom and respect.

[@castelodeossos3947]

The only novel by EWaugh that isn't an intelligent, funny satire. And it towers over the rest of his oeuvre. Suppose the English penchant for satire was a way to analyse and criticise without appearing pompous, to be 'charming' as Anthony Blanche says. It gets tiresome in the long run: Henry Fielding, Isaac Sterne, Kingsley Amis, Anthony Burgess, Anthony Powell, to name a few. Somerset Maugham, on the other hand went for the jugular. But then he wasn't truly British.