Vanity Fair [DVD] [1998] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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Actor : Danielle Hawley
Actor : Paul Brightwell
Actor : Natasha Little
Actor : Sara Powell
Actor : Frances Grey
Aspect Ratio : 4:3 - 1.33:1
Binding : DVD
Creator : Danielle Hawley
Creator : Paul Brightwell
Director : Marc Munden
EAN : 9780767052733
Format : Box set
Format : Closed-captioned
Format : Colour
Format : DVD-Video
Format : Full Screen
Format : NTSC
Is Adult Product? : No
ISBN : 0767052730
Label : A&E Home Video
Languages : Original Language: English
Manufacturer : A&E Home Video
MPN : AAED70738D
Number Of Discs : 2
Number Of Items : 2
Package Dimensions : 1.34 inches (Height) x 7.56 inches (Length) x 0.55 pounds (Weight) x 5.43 inches (Width)
Package Quantity : 1
Part Number : AAED70738D
Product Group : DVD
Publisher : A&E Home Video
Region Code : 1
Release Date : 2003-03-25
Running Time : 300
SKU : BTE733961707380
Studio : A&E Home Video
UPC : 733961707380

Thackeray's Vanity Fair had already been filmed by the BBC in 1987, when in the costume drama boom which followed the success of Andrew Davis' adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (1995), the Corporation commissioned him to write this new version. It is a tale of driving social ambition against a background of the Napoleonic wars, with Natasha Little, also to be seen in The Clandestine Marriage (1999), making a purposeful Becky Sharp. Virtual newcomer Frances Grey is the more appealing Amelia Sedley, while Nathaniel Parker, here Far From The Madding Crowd (1998), is the foolish Rawdon Crawley. The difficulty in adapting Thackeray--he also wrote the novel on which Kubrick's appropriately cold Barry Lyndon (1974) was based --is that he created unsympathetic characters for the purpose of satirising, "greedy, pompous men". Unlikable heroines do not make for popular television, and the danger is that we come close to empathising with arch-manipulator Becky Sharp. Nevertheless, there is still acid in this version, which stays close to the letter, if not always the spirit of the original. Add to that a decidedly sarcastic music score by Murray Gold, and if Vanity Fair isn't the absolute best of BBC drama, it certainly has a nasty bite. --Gary S. Dalkin

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Vanity Fair [DVD] [1998] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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