Title:
"Dance to the Music of Time, A" (mini)
Released: 1997
Genre: Comedy
/ Fantasy / Romance
Runtime: 120 min
(4 episodes)
Country: UK
Language: English
Plot
Summary: Anthony Powell's 12 volume novel
sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time"
has been dramatised for television.
Comments:
At
long last, Anthony Powell's 12 volume novel sequence
A Dance to the Music of Time has been dramatised for
television. If Powell's "Journals" are to
be believed, this is after any number of false starts
spanning the best part of 20 years. The dramatisation
was in four two-hour episodes, each covering approximately
3 books. They were shown on UK's Channel 4 TV in October
1997. The format of four 2-hour films was, in many
ways, unfortunate as it severely constrained the amount
of the action which could be shown, however given
the exigencies of modern TV scheduling it was probably
the only way in which "Dance" was ever going
to get televised. As a devotee of the books, I was
apprehensive about how they would translate into film.
Just how do you condense 12 novels into 8 hours of
television? However in my view the dramatisation worked
extremely well, notwithstanding the necessary omissions.
Cast
overview:
James Purefoy .... Nicholas Jenkins
James D'Arcy .... Nicholas Jenkins as a student
John Standing .... Nicholas Jenkins (in later life)
Simon Russell Beale .... Kenneth Widmerpool
Paul Rhys .... Charles Stringham
Luke de Lacey .... Charles Stringham as a student
Jonathan Cake .... Peter Templer
Bobby Webster .... Peter Templer as a student
Claire Skinner .... Jean Duport
Lucy Fleming .... Jean Duport (in later life)
Emma Fielding .... Isobel Tolland
Joanna David .... Isobel Tolland (in later life)
Geraldine Alexander .... Susan Tolland
Caroline Harker .... Priscilla Tolland
Jamie Glover .... Robert Tolland
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