Patrick Melrose
Realização:
Edward BergerArgumento:
David NichollsCâmara:
James FriendMúsica:
Volker BertelmannElenco:
Benedict Cumberbatch, Holliday Grainger, Jessica Raine, Anthony Boyle, James Fleet, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Pip Torrens, Indira Varma, Hugo WeavingSinopses(1)
Lacoste, França, 1967. Durante um dia quente de verão no château Melrose em Lacoste, Patrick, de oito anos, explora os terrenos, um santuário de esconderijos do complexo mundo adulto. David Melrose, cruel, convencido e volátil, preside à casa com um ar de indignação. Eleanor Melrose trata a habitual ressaca com um cocktail matinal de comprimidos e brandy. Com um jantar planeado, Eleanor atravessa os campos de França para recolher os convidados: Victor e Anne, velhos amigos de David; e Nicholas Pratt com a sua mais recente paixoneta, Bridget. Na ausência da mãe, Patrick é deixado sozinho com o pai. Durante a tarde, o mundo de Patrick muda para sempre quando David o viola. Só e aterrorizado, Patrick observa das escadas o pai a prosseguir normalmente com o jantar luxuoso, regalando os seus convidados com histórias inconvenientes e ofendendo todos exceto o seu dedicado discípulo Nicholas. (HBO Portugal)
(mais)Críticas (3)
The dive into Patrick Melrose's childhood years was deep, heavily atmospheric, and extremely depressing. Is there any other way to cope with one's inner turmoil after such parental chaos than the way Benedict Cumberbatch portrayed it in the first episode? The demonic Hugo Weaving, who fabulously portrayed David Melrose, scared even me, let alone a broken child's soul... ()
What a surprise! Unlike the previous episode, the second one didn't have any humor, but the atmosphere got much thicker. The flashbacks gave us a deeper look into the character of the charming David Melrose and the wonderful family dynamics. Hugo Weaving did a fantastic job filling in for the absent Benedict Cumberbatch, and I had a blast. ()
Unlike the stylistically distinctive and entertaining first episode, this one is "just" a focused and brilliantly acted build-up to a sense of helplessness and inevitability (of what Patrick will become in the future), but it's still hard to take your eyes off of it, and every scene is absolutely correct given the complex psychological portrait of a personality that will surely continue to play a key role in the series. And is it just me, or is Hugo Weaving delivering his fourth iconic villain? He's never been this scary before... 85% ()
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