You could not ask for a better screen adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. It's a stunning, gripping and visually sumptuous cinematic feast that is like a breath of fresh air in the onslaught of summer movies. But purists, beware.

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First published just as World War II was ending, Evelyn Waugh's weighty literary masterpiece was turned into a wildly successful British mini-series in 1981. For some strange reason, however, Brideshead Revisited has never been given a motion picture…