North & South
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Actor: Brendan Coyle, Daniela Denby-Ashe, Richard Armitage, Sin?ad Cusack, Tim Pigott-SmithBrand: Warner Brothers
Editor: Kristina Hetherington
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 233 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
DVD Reviews of North & South
DVD Review: best ending of a movie PERIOD!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Like everyone else, I can't say enough about how fantastic this movie is! My daughter and I believe that this is THE BEST and most romantic movie, with the best ending...period! We are great Jane Austen fans with P & P, of course, right up at the top of our list and we also LOVE the new (and old) version of Persuasion. But I think this one tops them all! Once we began watching, we could not stop! The very second the credits from one episode began to roll, we were..."hurry up, get the next episode going!" We watched it three times in one weekend!! Then we decided to get it out of the house because it was becoming a problem!:) So we loaned it to a friend and now can't wait till she returns it. Richard Armitage is "fiercely handsome!" The other actors are perfect! The ending is exquisite and yet, it is a movie that you do not want to end!! I bought the book on Amazon and have been anxiously checking the mail. You can bet I'll be pouring over the dialogue. WOW! GOOD CLEAN FUN!!DVD Review: Fall in love with North and South
Summary: 5 Stars
I truly love North and South. This film has replaced Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility as my favorite.
I have always loved Jane Austen, and had read Gaskell's North and South some years ago and loved it as well. I somehow missed the DVD when it first came out, and only saw it by chance on netflicks. It was wonderful, so I immediately ordered this DVD. I am so glad I did.
First of all, it is beautifully filmed. Secondly, the DVD has much more of the story (cut from the netflix version). I was also very happy to find the commentaries on the first and last hour. I would have preferred commentaries focused less on architecture and technical details and more on the acting, but I am glad that they existed.
The DVD has first and last scenes with Margaret and Thornton that are quite different from the novel. I thought the fight scene that introduces Thornton was well done, and did - for a modern audience - better explain Margaret's initial dislike. The last scene of the two of them at the railroad station is quite good. I see the anacronism and am willing to suspend disbelief in the cause of a good romantic ending. As with the book, I wanted more. I wanted to know what happened after the ending - but that is the sign of an excellent drama.
The acting was wonderful, particularly the excellent Richard Armitage as Thornton. He is an actor I have not seen before, but one I hope to see again. Daniela Denby-Ashe was a lovely Margaret, while not as expert an actor. Sinead Cusack, Brendan Coyle and the actress who played Bessie Higgins were all outstanding.
DVD Review: North & South
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent - right up there with Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle in Pride & Prejudice in acting, directing, scene location, costumes and story line with the book.DVD Review: Third time lucky?
Summary: 3 Stars
I haven't read Mrs. Gaskell's book, so was able to watch this DVD with no reader's pre-conception about how the story was adapted. I was willing to enjoy what I hoped, from everything I've heard and read about it, was a typical high-quality British production. And there are qualities about this production that I did enjoy, very much: Tim Piggott-Smith's performance as Rev. Hale; Sinead Cusack as Hannah Thornton (where has this actress been? one never sees her and she's so good), and Richard Armitage as John Thornton. The attention paid to the Victorian-period details -- the clothing and the furnishings; the contrast between the damp and gloomy northern mill town, as opposed to the flowering southern vicarage where the Hales come from. And I loved the soundtrack; what rich and perfectly suited-to-this-story music!
But, I had some problems with casting choices, the first one (relatively minor) being the actor who played Paul Hale. With his shaggy hair falling into his eyes and certain mannerisms, he struck me as a bit too 21st century to be playing a young man of the 19th century. More seriously, the biggest problem I had was the performance of Daniela Denby-Ashe as Margaret. I still don't quite know if it was the actress playing her; the character of Margaret as written, or a combination of both, but by the second episode I was experiencing a really negative feeling toward her, which only increased as the story continued. Certainly the actress's nearly-chipmunk cheeked, pudding face with its pink-lidded eyes, and usually vacant expression (only ever fully awake during exchanges or arguments with Thornton) gradually began annoying the heck out of me. I admit that by the last episode, I would have hoped they didn't reconcile, if only one couldn't see it coming a mile away...All of my sympathies were with Mrs. Thornton whenever she criticized Margaret to John Thornton. I felt exactly the same way!
Thus, unfortunately, the very romantic ending at the train station didn't find favor with me, the way it seems to have affected so many other female viewers... the last glimpse of Margaret's face, turned away from John to look out the train window, was the last straw. Turned away to look out the window, from the man who's just pledged his undying love for her! Why would a director choose this ending? The only thing that saved that scene, for me, was the music welling up in the background.
If I were to purchase anything regarding this production (the DVD was a library loan) it will be the soundtrack, if it's available. I did enjoy the production for the majority of the performances and its attention to detail, but I just didn't have the overwhelmingly positive reaction that most viewers seem to have had for Richard Armitage and Daniela Denby-Ashe's so-called chemistry; therefore I personally can't speak to fully enjoying this adaptation. Obviously many viewers felt much differently!
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This is my third, and last, attempt to leave a review of this particular television mini-series. I would appreciate if certain of the 370+ positive reviewers of this DVD, some of whom left borderline hostile/rude comments which unfortunately got deleted (and no, this was not my intention), and who thought this series was a five-star-or-even-more, utterly wonderful and fantastic viewing experience, would take into account that my review actually was not written to thoughtlessly "bash" this TV miniseries. I've stated one major problem I had with it which affected MY total enjoyment of the production. I agree 100% that any other brand-new viewer of "North and South" might think Daniela Denby-Ashe is fabulous as Margaret, but I, personally, didn't find her performance that great. There are a few reviews on Amazon.co.uk that concur with my opinion about her performance.
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DVD Review: Love is kind
Summary: 5 Stars
I have seen it more than three times already and I love it!!!. It's a heartfelt and romantic movie in every aspect. All the actors were wonderful and I thank them all for entertaining me a great deal. It can be enjoyed by the entire family. I recommend it!
Description of North & South
DVD Features:Audio Commentary:Commentary on Episodes 1 and 4 by producer Kate Bartlett, director Brian Percival and writer Sandy Welch
Biographies:Cast bios
Deleted Scenes
Interviews:Specially recorded interview with Richard Armitage
Production Notes
North & South is a splendid, four-hour adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's 19th century novel about an unlikely, and somewhat star-crossed, love between a middle-class young woman from England's cultivated south and an intemperate if misunderstood industrialist in a hardscrabble, northern city. Daniela Denby-Ashe plays Margaret Hale, forthright and strong-willed daughter of a former vicar (Tim Pigott-Smith) who relocates his family from a pastoral village outside London to unforgiving, largely illiterate Milton, a factory town where John Thornton (Richard Armitage) and his mother (Sinead Cusack), survivors of poverty, rule their cotton mill with an iron hand. Thornton befriends Margaret's father but incurs her wrath for his severity with his workers. What she doesn't notice is Thornton's core sense of responsibility for his employees' welfare. On the other hand, he misinterprets some of Margaret's own actions and intentions. Equally stubborn, the two drag out their obvious attraction over many painful months and events.
North & South's two leads are both very good, though Armitage's brooding, penetrating performance may very well be considered a classic one day. There are other wonders in the cast: Cusack and Pigott-Smith are superb, and Brendan Coyle is memorable as a firebrand union organizer who ultimately becomes an ally to a softening Thornton. The miniseries script by Sandy Welch is a persuasive mix of historical context and character study. Brian Percival's direction is full of moments that linger in the imagination, such as the winter-dream look of a busy cotton mill, with thousands of snowy fibers floating in the air. --Tom Keogh
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