The Pursuit of Love Q&A with Cast & Creatives | BFI & Radio Times TV Festival

[@linpollitt8950]

I have loved the book for years and reread it often. The series is very faithful to the book, the costumes and settings are perfect, the characters are vivid and the acting is impeccable. I do like the music of the period, unlike the director, but her use of more modern music worked really well. Congratulations to everyone involved. Better than Bridgerton!

[@courtney8049]

This was just a joy to watch! The questions and discussions felt so natural and informative! I’m watching the third episode tonight and I’m so excited to see how it ends ♥️

[@parasahmed9891]

The show was so good, I bought the book and I'm in love, wish I had read it when I was in my late teens. The soundtrack on this show is actually sick 👍🏾

[@poppyerin2994]

lilys donna sheridan hair makes me the happiest ever

[@stephenpollock-hill8480]

Oh Fraptious joy! The sheer elan, humour and wickedness of Nancy Mitford's novel has been encapsulated so well, like a Christmas snowing paperweight, fully shaken . You have also managed to encapsulate my best childhood friend who happens to be the son of a French Count, Pierre Drouet d'Aubigny in the person of Fabrice, Duke de Sauveterre! Five stars is not enough praise for this wonderful production, up there with "The Queen's Gambit", Lily & Emily are stupendous, many, many congratulations. The locations, sets, costumes, and script, truly show what British talent at its best can achieve. More Nancy Mitford novels on screen please, BBC. I also love the use of modern music, i.e. Brian Ferry "In with the In Folk" totally , wrong era, but brilliantly appropriate, as are others. So well done!

[@sianim1]

Enjoyed the first episode, excited to see my uni friend Frith Tiplady’s name on the credits as exec producer and now to see her face too! Always fascinated by behind the scenes talks.

[@Belfastboi]

Emily Beecham is fascinating

[@mariobrandsma9830]

LILY FALLS, WE FALL IN LOVE WITH HER , DAD IS HATED BY US , HOPE NO BORDER L ENDING. PEOPLE NEVER DIE DURING A ..... , CAMERA SHOTS , ALL PERSONS A ONCE IN A LIVETIME SCRIPT ,CAST , THANK YOU . VIRTUAL HUGS FOR ALL !

[@evep5689]

Why are so many contemporary British films about either the rich and privileged or the downtrodden and struggling poor. I am not one to say that films should be representative of anything, or that class is not an interesting subject matter per se, but these period dramas are starting to feel cliché and hopelessly repetitive. Why is British cinema or TV so annoying? Why does it almost always have to be about identity politics or the "glorious" past? Why does it decide so often to present people with this fake mirror, so they can look at themselves unchallenged and see what makes them superficially different or special and yet so stubbornly refuses to deal with the universal stuff, with the complexity of the human experience? Where are the films about all the fear? The fear to live your life, to grow up, the fear of humiliation and failure, the terror of our own mortality and the meaning of our existence? Where are the films that deal with the things we want to hide about ourselves; all of our rage, anger and prejudices where people are neither heroes or villains? What it's like to say goodbye to your dreams? What's the meaning of success when in the end we all die? What's the meaning of relationships in a capitalised world? Why are we alI so scared of ending up alone? Why can't we understand each other better in a world of hyper connectivity and information overload? I don't know, the list goes on and on. That's what I'd like to see British films grapple with. It can be funny, it can be fucking depressing or uplifting, just once in a while I'd like to feel alive, like someone punched me in the guts after I've watched a film, is that too much to ask British filmmakers? BFI? Why do I have to watch British films from the past to feel alive today? Why all this fake oomph? What for? Why the permanent escapism?

[@davidrobinson2776]

To be honest, I wish you had been interviewing this lot.