A Dance to the Music of Time
A Dance to the Music of Time ★★½ 1997
Explores the social, political, and artistic fortunes and foibles of upper-class Brits from the 1920s through the '60s from the viewpoint of everyman Nicholas Jenkins (D'Arcy and Purefoy) and his journey from schooldays to old age. Richardson is sexy man-eater Pamela Flitton and Beale is the unremarkable but ambitious and lucky Widmerpool among a cast of hundreds. Based on Anthony Powell's 12-volume series. 480m/C DVD . GB James Purefoy, Miranda Richardson, Simon Russell Beale, James D'Arcy, Paul Rhys, Jonathan Cake, Claire Skinner, Alan Bennett, John Gielgud, Zoe Wanamaker, Edward Fox, Michael Williams, Eileen Atkins; D: Alvin Rakoff, Christopher Morhan; W: Hugh Whitemore; C: Chris Seag-er; M: Carl Davis. TV
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