Bright Young Things (DVD)

Not many of us remember them, but the 1930s were wild, wild times. Between the two wars in England, it was a time when people were glad to be alive, and tended to make the most of it, and for the privileged rich classes at least it provided some hedonistic, extravagant experiences. For the "young things", again from the privileged classes, it was a world of nightclubs, jazz, cocaine, dancing, drinking, gay sex - yes, it was all going on in those days. Stephen Fry's first film as director is an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel, “Vile Bodies”, which was written in 1930. In many ways it offers an updated, modern look of those times as well. I suppose ...  Read the complete review