Video Review--A Dance to the Music of Time

A Dance to the Music of Time

 I gave it 4 out of 5 stars.

Description from Netflix:

Based on Anthony Powell's literary opus, this miniseries centers on Brit Nicholas Jenkins (James Purefoy) who, over the course of decades, observes the upper crust's uncanny ability to maintain propriety while keeping their secrets and scandals under wraps. Tea cakes ar...e spread with infidelity, failure, scandal and politics in this epic tale that spans from the 1920s to the '60s. John Gielgud, Miranda Richardson and Simon Russell Beale co-star.

Three by Powell and Pressburger

Three of Powell and Pressburger's World War II movies are especially dear to me because of their exploration of the Anglo-American Entente. The first, 49th Parallel (1942), is a very open appeal by the British to Americans to come in on the Allied side against the Axis. One of the most interesting scenes is set in a German Mennonite community in Canada. It underscores that the community of interest the British are appealing to is a community of values, not ethnicity.



The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1945), is the most British of the three. It both is sympathetic to Germans, led astray by Prussian and then Nazi militarism, but also seems to warn against loss of honor by adopting an enemy's values in defense of one's own values.





A Canterbury Tale (1949) suggests commonality of values between the British and American's.



All are good watches with fine character actors.