Basil (film)
- Jared Leto: Basil
- Christian Slater: John Mannion
- Claire Forlani: Julia Sherwin
- Derek Jacobi: Father Frederick
- David Ross: Sherwin
- Crispin Bonham - Carter: Ralph
- Rachel Pickup: Clara Fairfax
Basil's love is a British film director Radha Bharadwaj based on the novel by Wilkie Collins Basil from the year 1998.
Action
Here is the template Basil of 1852 of the great Victorian novelist Wilkie Collins was implemented on film.
The young nobleman Basil is paternal under strong pressure to become a aspiring and honorable man. But by a strong but volatile passion he is the victim of an insidious plot.
The family lives in a mansion, which can be visited by the public. One of these days watching Basil and his siblings visitors. Below is a pretty girl with blonde hair in which his older brother Ralph instantly falls in love. Some time later turns out that the girl is pregnant and the girl's father will intervene with Frederick. But this is neither interested in the honor of the pregnant woman nor the happiness of his son. Ralph is violated.
Soon after Basil's mother dies. Basil is a student and always lonely. Unexpectedly enters a profound change. The charismatic John Mannion saves him from an awkward position, and introduces him to Julia Sherwin. But this is not stand Nevertheless Basil leaves itself to a relationship with her. Just before he can take up his heritage with twenty-one, he married her in the exuberance of passion.
However, the beauty is very cautious and only makes concessions when they receive gifts. She wants even that her house is overwritten by Basil mother. When he visited his friend John surprisingly, he finds his wife in his bed. Injured he reverses. When he presents the couple to talk later, he experienced a tantrum. He's only in his native bed back to himself and has a reunion with his childhood sweetheart Clara.
Criticism
"The movie ... unfortunately remains a little cliche -loaded and plottechnisch not necessarily complex. Although paints a fairly comprehensible portrait of the era and the main actor Slater and Leto supply from convincing performance, but the implementation depends on their submission once again not approach and smothered in places in kitsch loaded old familiar. Neither outstanding nor overly bleak, but rock solid. "