A Handful of Dust
A Handful of Dust ★★ 1988 (PG)
A dry, stately adaptation of the bitter Evelyn Waugh novel about a stuffy young aristocrat's wife's careless infidelity and how it sends her innocent husband to a tragic downfall. A well-meaning version that captures Waugh's cynical satire almost in spite of itself. Set in post-WWI England. 114m/C VHS, DVD . GB James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Alec Guinness, Anjelica Huston, Judi Dench, Cathryn Harrison, Pip Torrens, John Junkin; D: Charles Sturridge; W: Charles Sturridge, Tim Sullivan, Derek Granger; C: Peter Hannan; M: George Fenton. British Acad. ‘88: Support. Actress (Dench).
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BORN: 1771, Edinburgh, Scotland
DIED: 1832, Abbotsford, Scotland
NATIONALITY: Scottish
GENRE: Fiction, poetry
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