- Format: Colour, Miniseries, Full Screen
- Language English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Studio: GRANADA TELEVISION - DDHE/SIMPLY HE under license from Granada Ventures ITV/DVD
- Run Time: 197 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B001DBEH22
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 71,408 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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James Willby, Xavier Deluc, Serena Gordon, John Mills & Anna Massey star in this gripping adaptation of Charles Dickens' immortal story of love and honour set against the fiery backdrop of the French Revolution.
Living in exile in England, the beautiful young Lucie Manette finds herself pursued by two suitors - fellow exile Charles Darnay and a dissolute and cynical Englishman, Sydney Carton. She chooses Charles unaware of his secret past and noble heritage.
As the French Revolution breaks out, Charles and his family head for Paris to help a former servant in trouble - only to discover that the terrors of the Revolution are far worse than they realised. Anarchy is loosed upon Paris. Justice is no more. Now is the time to settle old scores - and there are those with scores to settle against Charles Darnay.
With the shadow of the guillotine now looming over the Darnay family, Sydney Carton must make the ultimate gesture of love and sacrifice.
Charles Dickens' classic plot of eighteenth century intrigue and high passion has never been bettered - and this stellar Anglo-French cast, featuring John Mills, Xavier Deluc and Serena Gordon do it full justice as the action swings fast and furious between London and pre-revolution Paris.
The release of unjustly imprisoned physician Alexander Manette from the Bastille inextricably links the fates of his daughter Lucy and the mysterious yet charming Frenchman Charles Darnay who accompanies them to London. When lookalike Sydney Carton rescues Damay from the gallows, he too becomes involved in the thickening plot.
In Paris, passions are inflamed as the Bastille falls and old scores are settled at the guillotine. Charles Damay has a mission to accomplish there, but no-one is quite sure what it is - or who, indeed, he is. All is revealed as history comes back to haunt the Manette family, to whose daughter Lucy Damay is now to be married - if the cruel hand of fate can be stayed
Directed by Phillippe Monnier
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Pour les amateurs de très grandes performances d'acteurs, il faut absolument savourer le jeu très finement retenu et la silhouette incroyablempent pré-romantique de James Wilby (charismatique par ailleurs) dans le rôle de Sydney Carton, où il reprend plus que dignement le flambeau laissé par Dirk Bogarde dans une même extraordinaire performance de séduisant intellectuel lucide et transi (version 1958 avec Christopher Lee dans le rôle d' Evremonde s'il vous plait...); très belle mise en scène (picturale), même si les scènes d'action sont un tout petit peu vieillies en raison de la difficile comparaison avec les super productions à images de synthèse actuelles... mais ça marche!
Un panel d'acteurs franco-anglais exceptionnel dont la lumineuse Serena Gordon, Jean-Pierre Aumont,John Mills, Anna Massey et une Muriel Combeau "habitée" , une atmosphère sensible et juste...
Mais surtout un Wilby, sensible, malheureux et terribelemnt craquant au même titre que Toby Stephens en Gilbert Merkham ou en magistral Rochester... et comme pour ce dernier Jane Eyre, un Dickens à voir et revoir et revoir sans modération, juste pour le plaisir...
Un panel d'acteurs franco-anglais exceptionnel dont la lumineuse Serena Gordon, Jean-Pierre Aumont,John Mills, Anna Massey et une Muriel Combeau "habitée" , une atmosphère sensible et juste...
Mais surtout un Wilby, sensible, malheureux et terribelemnt craquant au même titre que Toby Stephens en Gilbert Merkham ou en magistral Rochester... et comme pour ce dernier Jane Eyre, un Dickens à voir et revoir et revoir sans modération, juste pour le plaisir...
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