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LIFE IN SQUARES follows the group of friends known as The Bloomsbury Group, who desire to escape the ties of Victorian England and lead lives dedicated to creative and sexual freedom.
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EAN5060352301953
eBay Product ID (ePID)24048553591
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ActorEdmund Kingsley, Lucy Boynton, Catherine Mccormack, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Rupert Penry-Jones, Eve Best, Christian Brassington, Elliot Cowan
I bought this after visiting Charleston - wanting something of its contextual backstory.
I knew a little about the Bloomsburys before watching this - and a little more after and
I liked them a lot less after their tedious self obsession and narcissism was so stylishly presented in this BBC dramatisation.
What a bunch of mediocre snobs they seemed to have been.
Episode three sees a change of cast - to show the Bloomsburys at Charleston twenty after episodes 1 & 2: a disastrous & comically unsuccessful decision.
The Duncan Grant of 1936 seems the same age as Duncan Grant of 1914 - only played by a different actor with different mannerisms. Confusing and baffling.
How boring their moaning is.
A very good telling of the life stories of a very original and interesting group of friends. Good casting. Also they filmed in Charleston itself (one of the real houses) which adds depth. I loved that it was more centred on Vanessa (Bell) for a change rather than the better known sister Virginia (Woolf).
A fascinating time with fascinating characters, especially the dynamics of the many and varied relationships, which took me a while to work out who was who.