Bleak House (1985)
- Directed by
- Ross Devenish
- Genre
- period drama film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 1 season, 8 episodes
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A long-running legal case called Jarndyce and Jarndyce entangles the lives of several characters including the wealthy Lady Dedlock and the kind John Jarndyce. The story follows the people caught up in the court's slow and corrupt proceedings.
slow-burnmelancholicclassymeasuredsomberintricateatmospheric
What happens
Bleak House is a BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur Hopcraft from the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House (1853). The series was the second adaptation of Bleak House by the BBC (the first being in 1959). It ran for eight episodes and starred Diana Rigg as Lady Dedlock, with Denholm Elliott in the role of John Jarndyce. In the United States, the series ran under the Masterpiece Theatre series umbrella. A notable plot omission in this version is the story of Caddy Jellyby and the Turveydrop family. As opposed to the standard of videotape for studio-based scenes and film for location-based scenes, the series was shot entirely on 16 mm colour film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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