Beau Brummell: This Charming Man was a 2006 BBC Television drama in based on the biography of Beau Brummell by Ian Kelly.
The film was commissioned by BBC Four for broadcast as part of its 2006 The Century That Made Us season.
Nancy Banks-Smith writing in The Guardian said the film was exquisite to see and very easy to enjoy, stating that, it was one of those plays where the director of photography and the costume and set designers, who normally ...
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Beau Brummell: This Charming Man was a 2006 BBC Television drama in based on the biography of Beau Brummell by Ian Kelly.
The film was commissioned by BBC Four for broadcast as part of its 2006 The Century That Made Us season.
Nancy Banks-Smith writing in The Guardian said the film was exquisite to see and very easy to enjoy, stating that, it was one of those plays where the director of photography and the costume and set designers, who normally bring up the rear, led the whole parade. She also compliments Hugh Bonneville for his, frighteningly feasible Prince Regent. She concludes that, the Georgians had a natural beauty in their lives which makes ours seem ugly.
Jodie Pfarr writing in The Sydney Morning Herald describes the film as, an engaging costume drama romp, which provides, a fascinating account of the relationship between Brummell and the prince. He calls the show, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy 18th-century style, and concludes that, the moral of the story is all can be fine...
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