Brideshead Revisited

Agnostic Charles Ryder is seduced by the allure of the Flytes, a wealthy aristocratic family. Although he finds himself at odds with their strong Catholicism, his ties to the family deepen for the decades between the two world wars.

• paris, france
• venice, italy
• england
• based on novel or book
• world war ii
• fountain
• artist
• british empire
• friendship
• love
• romance
• religious conversion
• miniseries
• in the closet
• mistress
• university
• love affair
• period drama
• alcohol abuse
• catholic
• alcoholic
• expatriate
• domineering mother
• labor strike
• catholicism
• husband wife estrangement
• marital separation
• catholic guilt
• englishman abroad
• oxford university
• 1920s
• 1940s
• aristocracy
• ancestral home
• 1930s
• alcoholic son
• aristocrats
• social scandal
• society party
• closeted homosexual
• family friend
• british painter
• general strike