Finding Gondal : The Story of the Brontë Family

Starring, Bernie Collins & Clara Kundin.
This documentary approaches the life and works of the Bronte sisters, major english writers of the 19th century.
Plot
In 1820, the Reverend Patrick Bronte moved to the village of Haworth in Yorkshire , with his wife, Maria Branwell, their son Branwell, and their four daughters. A year later, Maria dies. Then the two eldest daughters both die at the age of 10 and 11 years old. Patrick faced this series of tragedies by instilling in his children a love for the arts. He had great hopes to see Branwell, his only son, become an eminent poet. Alas vain hope, Branwell would go on to loose himself into a life of debauchery. It is elsewhere that the work of the reverend will bear its fruits. His three remaining daughters; Charlotte, Emily and Anne will go on to write a significant chapter of English literature.
Voix off BERNIE COLLINS Voix additionnelles et lectures poèmes CLARA KUNDIN
Interviews SALLY SHUTTLEWORTH SOPHIE GILMARTIN JOSEPHINE MCDONAGH DIANE PURKISS SHAHIDHA BARI Musique originale ALEXANDRE BENETEAU Directeur de la Photographie
BENJAMIN GONCALVES-MARTINS Montage - Motion Design AMELIA TONIOLO Décoratrices Ombres Chinoises MARIE SERGENT KRYSTELL MORANTIN Illustrations Originales CORALIE NAGEL
Assistante de production JULIETTE ALLEAUME Mixage - Montage Son - Sound Design CYRIL COLE
Prise de son Interview CHRIS CUBITT & GREGORY OVENDEN Enregistrement Voix-Off CYRIL COLE
Studio d'enregistrement DIGITAL SALADE STUDIOS Traductions Scénario ANNE-ELYSE GAUTHIER- BERNIE COLLINS Sous-titres Français LIONEL COMPTEDessins des cartes MARIE SERGENT Assistant-monteur NICOLAS PRAZ Photographies et retouches images JULIETTE ALLEAUME Maquillage AGATHE BERNARDON Etalonnage et DCP OLIVIER DASSONVILLE Conformation
EYMERIC JORAT écrit, produit et réalisé par MORGAN RAUSCENT

[@lizjohnson6324]

I have just listened to a free audio book of Wuthering Heights for the third time .I believe that it was written by a genius.If you love this book do give it a try in lockdown it saved my sanity.

[@denisehill7769]

I found a great version read by Patricia Routledge. Enthralling from beginning to end :)

[@aurorarose7239]

Emily Bronte was amazing and her poems are beautiful!. I would highly recommend if you have not already seen it is “To Walk Invisible” It is occasionally on Prime streaming service for free.

[@jenniferlane6720]

I prefer it over Jane Eyre.

[@taffyjones281]

She was , without doubt, a genius. Everything about her one and only novel is utterly wonderful, from the groundbreaking structure, to the powerful description and passion. How on earth she conjured this up, leading the short life she lived, never fails to amaze me!

[@damileighejankowski1936]

I always find it such a cool thing to say that the house where the Brontes lived at one point is just two minutes down the road and given the fact I am a extremely large bookworm leaves me in awe to think off.

[@lorrainethomson8994]

I too lived near Howarth Across Cock Hill Moor to Wadsworth, Hebden Bridge Weekdays we travelled into Thornton, Bradford where my husband had a business and on to Bradford Royal Infirmary where I was nursing. Although living in Scotland now, ( Scot and Yorkshire ancestry). Spent years hiking across the moors around Howarth, Widdup , Luddenden, Jack Bridge, Oxenhope etc and visiting the stone built villages including Howarth. I visit whenever I can, My heart is divided between Scotland and Yorkshire, however my sons and daughter are Scots,so I live near beautiful Stirling A point of interest for you, if you know the Oxenhope Straw Race, my first husband ( who died) and his business partner were the founders of this race. I ran with my husband in the first one in 1976. Greetings from a cold and frosty Scotland Enjoy Hogmanay.

[@stephaniedaniel7824]

Beautiful..! I love English, and I love Brontë famille. !🤩😍

[@hyacinth4368]

I've read Wuthering Heights many times over the years, since a teenager. I don't think these people have read it, or, they didn't understand it.

[@johnburman966]

When you know your life is going to be short - and they would have from experience. You can choose to take the route of dissipation, self pity. Or furious creativity, life lived fully. In our times we are so complacent, wasting opportunities, not taking risks.

[@PoetryETrain]

I really like this... Well done everyone.

[@user-bn7bk5mw4s]

I would die happy if I could see Haworth❤

[@bernardofitzpatrick5403]

It’s a wonderful experience. Walking on moors is also a must.

[@JDesEsseintes-x]

I really wish there weren't many spoilers in this, or in book reviews in general. I had to stop watching because I haven't read Jane Eyre yet.

[@poetryjones7946]

Go ahead and read them, most of these people are so ill informed (particularly that young Indian woman!) one would get the idea they haven’t read the books at all.

[@markhodgson2348]

Wonderful thank you for posting this video

[@victorvarjac1501]

Vidéo très intéressante sur la vie et l'oeuvre de cette famille exceptionnelle. Un regret cependant, l'oubli de la poésie d'Émily qui fait tout de même partie des plus belles pages de la poésie anglaise; Bravo pour le sous titrage lisible . Une belle réussite. Merci et Bravo.

[@amorzz100]

Fascinating.

[@novicacurcic1686]

Wonderful and soo Tragik in the same time. Aloha from Serbija in Balkan.

[@sylvain123]

Very much enjoyed this documentary. The American accents took a bit to get used to. And no disrespect, there are couple of inaccuracies. I loved the presentation and the background information from experts delving into the novels was very interesting. I never tire of Brontës documentaries, I learn something different from each of them. Many Thanks 😊 🙏

[@bandonoregon]

Accents?? Which foreign country are you from?

[@60toodles]

American accents and need getting used to? What a daft comment lol You must be very sheltered.

[@papermoontarot4219]

Who was that woman over dramatizing their poetry and verse--terrible acting! I visited Haworth when I was 18 and felt a haunting connection when in the parsonage. Wuthering Heights is a favorite, but their dramatization missed a key moment when Catherine is telling Nelly she couldn't lower herself to marry Heathcliff and he, turning away, doesn't hear her next sentence, Ah, but I love him. It's the most gut wrenching moment when you realize he walked away and never got to hear that, and that moment is what the entire remainder of the story rests on.

[@bandonoregon]

I enjoyed this touching documentary. I can understand that there is not much picture material of the family etc. but I find it close to irritating that there are at least three paintings by C.D. Friedrich (not even English), Millais and others, and it not clear if depicted women portraits show one of the Brontes or not

[@janelle144]

Anne's grave stone needs some work, it seems to be falling apart. I hope they restore it.

[@reginawhitlock4227]

Jane was at Lowood eight years , not ten, and it was only bad at first.

[@lorrainethomson8994]

Keighley It's not pronounced Key-glay but Keith-lay

[@60toodles]

who cares?

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

Brilliant, tragic siblings...this was an excellent presentation, much appreciated. The strident voice of the singer at the end was distracting.

[@user-bn7bk5mw4s]

Well... I dont think this preachers daughter was thinking of necrophillia😮

[@josephinenilsson1541]

I began watching this but stopped immediately since already in the beginning they got several things wrong. Charlotte wasn’t the oldest Brontë sibling and Branwell was not the first to die. They completely missed the two older sisters, Maria and Elizabeth who died almost a decade earlier.

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

No, the two older sisters were mentioned at the beginning.

[@mparker6823]

@Josephine Nilsson there seems to be some confusion, because this documentary clearly talks several times about the two older girls who passed away at the boarding school. It also gives the remaining children's order of birth, which puts Charlotte as the eldest of the surviving siblings. And Branwell did pass away first, with Emily surviving him by several months, and then Anne. Charlotte passes last, a few months after marrying her father's assistant. All this is covered in this documentary, but more importantly, is backed up by historical records if one wishes to dive into a fascinating research rabbit hole.

[@donspeight7921]

I'm pretty sure they were mentioned, and may I recommend you give it another go. I found it took a little while to get going, but once it did, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Though to be fair, I suspect you are far more knowledgeable than I about the sisters. Most of what I know is from In Our Time Episodes, Michael Stewart's "Walking the Invisible" and TV Drama adaptations - Hopefully I will get round to reading the originals, some day.

[@aurorarose7239]

Hello, No disrespect but the wife of the Rev.Bronte and the Bronte children’s name was Mariah, not Maria.😊

[@kevinrussell1144]

No disrespect, but the girls' mother WAS named MARIA. However, the English generally do NOT pronounce the name Ma-REEE-ah, as in "I just Met a Girl....", but as if it were SPELLED Mariah (Ma-RIGH-ah), as "They Called the Wind Mariah", from a famous musical about painted conveyances not AT ALL set in Yorkshire. Is this just a French screw-up or should we blame this on a Glasstown-inspired robot?

[@everynewdayisablessing8509]

I'm pretty sure the blue plaque on their earlier house has Maria (daughter), and those people would have checked before having it made On the same plaque also says Partick Branwell, probably how he was baptized, but they just called him Branwell.

[@ilovenature9077]

30:00 oh my god! Poor Emily...

[@ChrisLonsdale67]

I wonder what Bronte readers think of the possibility of a surviving photograph? kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIC5oH-Pg89lkLM

[@everynewdayisablessing8509]

If this is the video about a photo found in France with 3 sisters I believe it is the Bronte sisters. ( I watched it earlier today so not going to click on your link.) On the reverse, of the photo it is even written in French "Bronte sisters".

[@ChrisLonsdale67]

@@everynewdayisablessing8509 Yes, that's the video. It seems very likely to be them, imho.

[@jkline999]

Branwell was not the first of the siblings to die.

[@marvwatkins7029]

At 20:00: I don't believe that Big Ben had ben built that early.

[@jenniferlane6720]

1834 Big Bend built.

[@sheilaackers3854]

Did Charlotte have an affair with her master abroad? Charlotte loved him. It seems to me she could have been a bit of a hypocrite. Just my opinion.

[@everynewdayisablessing8509]

He rejected her, never even answered her letters.

[@petermitchell6348]

Lol, what happened to their Yorkshire dialect?

[@tymanung6382]

People who knew the Bronte s said that when they were younger, they spoke Irish style English, later Yorkshire?.style as 20th century Received Pronunciation Southern England origin, did not yet exist.

[@reginawhitlock4227]

I don't believe for a minute that they had a thick Yorkshire accent, that is a modern day invention. The girls were extensively educated, both at home and abroad. They taught French, for Gs sake!

[@reginawhitlock4227]

And nobody that knew them ever mentioned it, and they would have. They always had to be sure and say Charlotte was plain.

[@tymanung6382]

@@reginawhitlock4227 However, if current national Received Pronunciation e as invented in early to mid 1900s, earlier called BBC speech,.then what did educated professional,. mid. + large capitalists, + large landowners speak? Educated version of each of 37? (still existing ) local dialects--- sophisticated vocabulary + syntax,.+ local rhythm, stress, intonation ? Or---??

[@reginawhitlock4227]

@tymanung6382 We have the novels they wrote, and their correspondence, mostly Charlotte's. In Wuthering Heights, the servant, Joseph, has a pronounced Yorkshire accent. However, Nelly Dean, also a servant, and the main narrator, doesn't. Lockwood notices and mentions it to her. She says she has always been a reader....Believe what you will, but they wrote beautiful prose. Read the last sentence of Wuthering Heights. They didn't talk like hicks.

[@corvuscorone7735]

Gah, I HATE vocal fry. Why do you have to speak with a sneering, world-weary inflection about literature?!

[@voraciousreader3341]

So, a few “outrages” have been perpetrated within just over a minute in the beginning of this....documentary (??). First of all, the name spelled “Maria” was not pronounced in England as the Spanish and Italian “Mah-REE-ah.” It was-and often still is-pronounced, “Mah-RYE-ah.” Next, Charlotte was NOT the oldest Brontë child....she was the oldest _SURVIVING_ Brontë child! Two daughters were born alive before her and died very young. Small matters, perhaps, to the American production staff, but not to devotees of the Brontë family, that’s for sure! This kind of bizarrely poor scholarship is why I routinely watch BBC productions (as well as other quality British documentaries) and skip the stuff made in the US. And I am an American, btw.

[@annwilliams6438]

Aaaah! “Bizarrely poor scholarship…”. Seriously! A very well done documentary giving a wonderful insight into the sisters, their lives and what drove them to bring the characters they did to life, is sniped at about such ridiculous trivia. Please push off to the BBC channel so that others of us enjoy what is on offer without your pedantry. Oh, and I read between four and eight books a week (mostly non-fiction) - exactly to get a broader view of the world, so please don’t even bother with a come back about my not being enough of a reader to understand (or some such baloney). It is always interesting to get some snippets of information such as what was given, but your narrow-minded snobbishness just sours your offering. Hopefully you will use some of your obviously ample available time to explore the broader, deeper aspects of life - as the sisters did and why what they produced was, and still is, so powerful.

[@janefaceinthewind6260]

The matter of the two older siblings is being mentioned though.

[@davidlambert7725]

I agree to an extent, but to be fair, it's hard to impress a somewhat Bronte obsessed Haworth 'lad' (now 68 yoa) who regularly walks those moors. Nevertheless, apart from the terrible accents on the opening lines of Wuthering Heights, I quite liked its naivety, namely the 'kids picture book' illustrations etc. Perhaps this was aimed at 8th or 9th graders (what we in the UK call years 9 and 10) to accompany English Literature courses covering the work of the Bronte sisters? Maybe not… The cartoon depictions of the Wuthering Heights story beginning at 22.40 minutes are hilarious - maybe aimed at pre schoolers! What a weird accompaniment to the excellent interviews with academics that are featured throughout. For those who don't know anything about the Bronte's apart from maybe watching one of the many film versions of Wuthering Heights, it was reasonably informative - and I thought the narrator's voice and accent were easy enough to listen to. I think it's fair to say that the chronology, as narrated here, isn't easy to follow. Less than two minutes into the production, the mention of Charlotte as the eldest daughter is confusing - especially as a further two minutes elapses before a brief mention of her two earlier siblings. Also, in the context of life in the early mid 19th century there's no mention of the circumstances surrounding their deaths nor of the direct cause, tuberculosis. It does however mention that TB was the cause of death of Branwell, Emily, Anne and Charlotte. Speaking of Branwell - poor, quote: 'Debauched' Branwell... The narrator sounds a bit too evangelical for my liking. Generally, Branwell gets little or no recognition for his writing nor his painting and this documentary does nothing to redress the imbalance. As mentioned above, the documentary is somewhat rescued by fine interviews with various Bronte experts. In addition there are some lovely clips of the moors surrounding Top Withens. Also featured is Wycoller Hall. Strange inclusion of shots of Whitby Abbey (linked more to Bram Stoker’s Dracula - read it of you haven’t already) but I suppose they reflect the gothic nature of Wuthering Heights. The mention of East Riddlesden Hall in Keighley “Keegly” - is actually pronounced as “Keith-ly.” Minor criticisms of what was a very entertaining documentary. Not often I get to giggle at anything relating to the Bronte’s. Suitable for ages five to 105.

[@kimmy2631]

LMAO who do you think you are? Do you really think you know more about the Brontë sisters than professors of English literature of the 19th Century working at Oxford??

[@aprilsky8474]

Then why don't you make a you presentation and upload it to you tube if you can do better 😂

[@chiasanzes9770]

Charlotte was Not the eldest of Bronte sisters first born was Marie then came Elisabeth Charlotte was thrid eldest. Also Bramwell was not the first to die of Bronte sisters. First died Marie, Elisabeth and Emily. American never get their facts in right, very poorly done research as usual.

[@Beckykeenanx]

Branwell died 3 months before Emily.

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

I beg your pardon, but this documentary is correct...you just failed to hear the beginning clearly.

[@60toodles]

The documentary was correct you didn't listen. Too busy steaming with your obvious hatred of americans. I have no idea where you come from because chia sanzes is not an English name but don't make sweeping statements about an entire country and listen before you speak.

[@everynewdayisablessing8509]

You got the names wrong though: Maria Brontë, Elizabeth Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Branwell Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë. First to die were Maria, the mother, then Maria and Elizabeth, not sure which order but pretty close, they were 11 and 10. Then many years later Branwell, Emily, Anne and Charlotte while pregnant. The father Patrick died last, poor poor man.