The Way We Live Now (2001)

Directed by

David Yates

Genre

drama television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 4 episodes

Rated

15

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a Victorian-era story about a financier named Augustus Melmotte who arrives in London. His schemes and social ambitions entangle a group of people including his daughter and several aristocrats.

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What happens

The Way We Live Now is a 2001 six-part television adaptation of the Anthony Trollope 1875 novel The Way We Live Now. The serial was first broadcast on the BBC and was directed by David Yates, written by Andrew Davies and produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark. David Suchet starred as Augustus Melmotte, with Shirley Henderson as his daughter Marie, Matthew Macfadyen as Sir Felix Carbury, Cillian Murphy as Paul Montague and Miranda Otto as Mrs Hurtle. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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