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The Way We Live Now
starring: Matthew Macfadyen, Paloma Baeza, Cheryl Campbell, Shirley Henderson, Douglas Hodge
directed by: David Yates (II)

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790766126
Format: Closed-captioned, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790766124
Label: BBC Video
Manufacturer: BBC Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: BBC Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 30, 2002
Running Time: 300 minutes
Sales Rank: 4164
Studio: BBC Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2001

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
The Way We Live Now captures the turmoil as the old order is swept aside by the brash new forces of business and finance. Based on the novel by Anthony Trollope this satire of Victorian society contains the trials and tribulations of young love the pettiness of the upper class life the raw energy and excitement of the most powerful city the world had ever seen and the greed and corruption that lay just below its glittering surface.Running Time: 300 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 794051162021 Manufacturer No: E1620

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First screened on BBC in 2001, The Way We Live Now will surprise those who know Anthony Trollope through the subtleties of his Barsetshire novels. This story of ambition centers around Augustus Melmotte, an Austrian Jewish financier who takes the London money markets and social scene by storm in his efforts to become an "English country gentleman." His rise and fall is followed with remorseless logic by Trollope, and David Yates's direction keeps this in focus against a wealth of subplots and character interaction.

The cast is a strong one, with David Suchet's Melmotte gripping in his recklessness, climaxing in the theatrical magnificence of his departure in disgrace from the House of Commons. Shirley Henderson is magnetic as his put-upon daughter Marie, courted by the cream-of-society bachelors for her dowry rather than her person. Cheryl Campbell gives a good account of the feckless Lady Carbury, writing vacuous novels to support her family, with Matthew MacFadyen relishing the part of her rakish son, Felix. Paloma Baeza is sympathetic as her daughter, Hetta, whose on-off relationship with entrepreneur Paul Montague, ably taken by Cillian Murphy, provides the main love interest. Douglas Hodge impresses as the loyal and sincere but insipid Roger Carbury.

The series consists of four generous episodes, each lasting 75 minutes. This is an absorbing production of what isn't the most subtle of Victorian novels, but which surely remains among the most relevant. --Richard Whitehouse

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Fabulous!
This is an excellent production. The acting by both Matthew McFadden and David Suchet along with a brilliant supporting cast is amazing and a joy to behold. The movie is full of laughs but also a bit unnerving at times by all the greed and malice. It is a true delight to watch. This is one of the best BBC productions to date.

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- A well-acted, albeit condensed version of Anthony Trollope's work.
The Way We Live Now is a 2001 BBC production that is an adaptation of Anthony Trollope's novel of the same name. The story has at its center the story of Augustus Melmotte [a magnificent David Suchet], a European financier who comes to London to set up shop, accompanied by a docile wife and daughter, Marie [Shirley Henderson]. Melmotte is actually a swindler, but does such a good job of cloaking his true designs that it is not till much later that his chicanery is exposed.

Though Melmotte's ... Read More

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- See the Film/Read the Book!
These seemingly endless period dramas churned out by the BBC and others are valuable in that they can be viewed as a kind of visual "Cliff's Notes" for us busy folk who can't find the time to read the original novels. Bottom line is this: you should read the book no matter what, especially if it's by Anthony Trollope, one of English literature's most consistently great writers. If you watch the movie first, you MAY be interested enough in the story and characters to read the book later. In fact, I'd say ... Read More

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- review of the way we live now
I did not like this film. The characters were not well developed and some were absolutely revolting. There was not one to whom I related or cared about their outcome in the plot . I will not watch it a second time and would like to sell it back to Amazon.

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- Terrible. Does not do justice to a brilliant book (spoilers)
Let me start by saying that I am not a purist. I can live with changes to a story, but only if those changes don't change it materially or take away from its spirit. The changes made by Andrew Davies to The Way We Live Now upset me greatly -- he most definitely did change the story to the point where its essence was no longer recognizable.

The Way We Live Now is considered by many (yours truly included) to be Trollope's masterpiece. Trollope's Melmotte is a thoroughly corrupt man, but Davies ... Read More

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