Barbara Vine (Box Set) (DVD)

Barbara Vine (Box Set) (DVD)

Mystery - Director: Tim Fywell - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Jeremy Northam, Douglas Hodge, Paul Rhys, Michael Sheen, Helena Bonham-Carter, Celia Imrie, Sophie Ward, Saira Todd more

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Three features. Adaptations from the crime writer Ruth Rendell writing under the name of Barbara Vine. In 'A Fatal Inversion', two friends are reunited after ten years when the...
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Major era of the Conservative party is about to
begin. The media is full of tales of sleaze and
corruption, and it is not a good time to be a Tory
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charismatic and attractive, and he is in the
middle of a passionate affair. The fly in the
ointment is the fact that this is an adulterous
relationship: not a happy state of affairs when PM
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'Victorian Values' the new yardsticks for his
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sexuality. Ivor arranges for a mock kidnapping in
line with the couple's games, but, needless to say
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away from him.As this synopsis suggests, Rendell
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she has traversed before, and the political
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disturbing books. As often before with her, the
stake for the central character could not be
higher and it is impossible not to be drawn into
the plight of the beleaguered Ivor (not for the
first time, we are reminded of the authors
distinguished American predecessor Patricia
Highsmith).The Birthday Present,disturbing as it
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the other Barbara Vine titles -- and if you don't
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in most areas of his life--he has run out of
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is in the course of being voted out of existence
and his relationship with his second wife is
threatened by the difficulties she is experiencing
in bringing a child to term. He throws himself
into a study of his great-grandfather Henry--a
doctor ennobled by Queen Victoria for his work on
the haemophilia which dogged her descendants--and
finds something not quite right. Henry was not
just a repressed Victorian--there was something
about his ruthless jilting of mistresses and
fiancées which implies something a lot more
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was. This novel is acute on the intellectual
pleasures of historical research including the
guilty prurience of working out dead people's
secrets;it is also genuinely insightful in its
portrait of Nanther, a man who thinks he is a
worse and more useless man than he is, and finds
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Actor(s): Douglas Hodge, Jeremy Northam, Saira Todd, Paul Rhys, Michael Sheen, Helena Bonham-Carter, Celia Imrie, Sophie Ward

Director(s): Tim Fywell

Genre: Mystery

Classification: 15 years and over

Running Time: 8 hours 15 minutes

Video Category: Television

Plot: Three features. Adaptations from the crime writer Ruth Rendell writing under the name of Barbara Vine. In 'A Fatal Inversion', two friends are reunited after ten years when the bodies of a woman and a child are discovered in the pet cemetery near on one of the friend's country house estate. Can they stay one step ahead of the police or will the police discover the truth? Also includes: 'A Dark Adapted Eye', and 'Gallowglass'.

DVD Description

Three features. Adaptations from the crime writer Ruth Rendell writing under the name of Barbara Vine. In 'A Fatal Inversion', two friends are reunited after ten years when the bodies of a woman and a child are discovered in the pet cemetery near on one of the friend's country house estate. Can they stay one step ahead of the police or will the police discover the truth? Also includes: 'A Dark Adapted Eye', and 'Gallowglass'.

Release details

DVD Region: DVD

Studio(s): CINEMA CLUB; SONY DADC

Release date: 31/10/2005

No of Discs: 3

Catalogue No: CCTV 30231

Barcode: 5014138302313

Languages

Main Language: English

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Advantages: An excellent book by a versatile writer
Disadvantages: Some may find it a little slow-moving

...Introduction I have been quite critical of Ruth Rendell in some past reviews - her books range from the brilliant to the really bad - but I have to admit she is the most versatile of writers. I knew before I started this book that Barbara Vine was a pen-name for Ruth Rendell; had I not known, there is no way in a million years I would have guessed that this book was by the same author as the Wexford novels. I have not read any of Barbara Vine's books before, but expected something along the lines of a psychological thriller, such as those by Nicci French. What I got was a really well-written novel describing one man's efforts to write a biography of his great-grandfather, who happened to be a top physician to Queen Victoria, and who turns out to have some complicated happenings in his life. The writing is altogether of a different level... Read review

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Advantages: Engrossing psychological drama
Disadvantages: Pace may be too slow for some readers

..."The Minotaur" is the twelfth and most recent novel by Barbara Vine, who is, of course, the alter ego of the highly successful crime novelist Ruth Rendell. The Vine novels are, I think, intended to be the darker, more psychological, less crime-genre side of Rendell's writing, giving her the opportunity to branch out in new directions? although to be honest, I'm not convinced they are really all that much different from the (non-Wexford) novels she writes under her own name. The story is narrated by Kerstin Kvist, who as a young woman in the late 1960s comes from Sweden to the Essex countryside in order to work for the Cosway family; ostensibly, as a carer for John, the mentally-ill thirty-nine year old son of the family. Kerstin's main motivation is to be closer to her London-based boyfriend; however, she is also intrigued by... Read review

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Advantages: Well acted, Great Book Adaptation Storylines, Fun for All Ages
Disadvantages: Each Movie is About Three Hours Long

...be ignored by the overall storyline. I was slightly disapointed by this third story since it really didn't go by the books my L.M Montgomery at all. The first two movies are at least based on her books , but this movie was almost entirely made up. I was hoping the third movie would follow the other books about Anne as she is grown up with Children. Still, the movie was well made and entertaining. It was good to see the actors again, and the costumes anad attention to detail from the World War I era are fantastic. It's not as good as the first two movies, but well worth a watch. ******Conclusion***** All these movies in the Box Set; Anne of Green Gables, The Sequel , and The Continuing Story, are so much fun. Children around the age of 7 and up will enjoy the first one. While children more around the age of 10 and up would... Read review

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