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Line of Beauty (The)
- Director: Saul Dibb
- Writer: Alan Hollinghurst; Andrew Davies
CGiii Comment
Yuck - this will leave a thoroughly unpleasant taste in your mouth.
A vile parasite moves in on his wealthy friend's family - practically adopting them as his own.
And, it doesn't make for pleasant viewing - cringeworthy from beginning to end...but, that is possibly the intention - if so - well done.
However...a putrid and hideous character study...and, strangely compelling!
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Nick Guest comes to London to live with his college friend's family, the Feddens. A short stay becomes permanent, and Nick positions himself in the family's plentiful lives of parties and politics during the Thatcher years. Over the course of three episodes spanning four years in the mid-eighties, we follow Nick's two homosexual love affairs in a time of promiscuity and carelessness, until the AIDS crisis and a bout of scandal threaten life as he has come to know it.
Cast & Characters
Dan Stevens as Nick Guest;
Tim McInnerny as Gerald Fedden;
Hayley Atwell as Cat Fedden;
Alice Krige as Rachel Fedden;
Carmen du Sautoy as Elena;
Alex Wyndham as Wani Ouradi;
James Bradshaw as Polly Tompkins;
Oliver Coleman as Toby Fedden;
Lydia Leonard as Penny Kent;
Don Gilet as Leo Charles;
Christopher Fairbank as Barry Groom;
Oscar James as Brentford;
John Warnaby as Badger;
John Standing as Lord Kessler;
Siri Svegler as Martine