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Rating:  - Great entertainment!
This was a very enjoyable mini-series. I loved this dark Dickens' story, the characters were varied and interesting. I thought it was well acted and very satisfiying. Gillian Anderson was remarkable in her portrayal of a sad and bored wife, even if some of her mannerisms were a bit phony. All of the female characters were well defined and very realistic For those of you who love all things British and BBC video, ie. you have all of the Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell adaptations, this should be the next one on your list.
Rating:  - Bleak House -
A friend had watched Bleak House when presented on PBS and I tried to catch-it, but missed several episodes. She purchased the set and kept telling me that I really needed to watch it, but never had the time. We finally had a girls weekend and watched the complete set!! Phenomenal job to the cast! Very intreging, couldn't stop watching! To anyone who thinks its way too much time - couldn't have been better spent. I even got my 19 year old hooked.
Bleak House
Rating: - Powerful story! And very well done.
After eating up this 7 hours + of Dicken's BLEAK HOUSE, I went immediately to Amazon and bought the DVD and the book. It's a great story and I want to read the novel and rewatch this wonderful BBC production. Highly recommended!
Rating:  - The Matrix goes to lit class
The good news: first-rate casting and acting, breathtaking sets and costumes, capable screenplay adaptation. The bad: Dickens' potboiler is nearly spoiled by excesses of murky, claustrophobic tight shots, dizzying cuts, and an appalling soundtrack.
The first irritant came early: the schlocky ambient loop "music" of the titles. In short order, the perplexing cuts piled up, scored with rifle-shot noises resembling PowerPoint slide-transition effects on steroids.
Do we really need swelling, synthesized thumpa-thumpa to clue us that Lady Dedlock is feeling strong emotion? Isn't it enough that she blanches, then faints? Dickens does not describe outright his characters' interior states, nor, do I think, should his adaptors.
The irritating editing and the larded-on sound effects nearly eclipsed the serial's great strengths. But despite these objections, we were hooked by the suspense, the setting, and the acting. More restraint (lose the synthesizer!) would have served this effort far better than than do the styles chosen. We'll be looking around for other versions.
Rating: - Bleak House
This is an excellent series. I love Gillian Anderson since the X-Files and everytime I see her in a movie I buy it, I happened to rent this series through Net Flix and I liked it so much that I ordered it through Amazon for my collection.
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