The Way We Live Now

The Way We Live Now is a 2001 four-part television adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel The Way We Live Now. The serial was first broadcast on the BBC and was directed by David Yates, written by Andrew Davies and produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark. David Suchet starred as Auguste Melmotte, with Shirley Henderson as his daughter Marie, Matthew Macfadyen as Sir Felix Carbury, Cillian Murphy as Paul Montague and Miranda Otto as Mrs Hurtle. Augustus Melmotte is a foreign-born financier with a mysterious past. When he and his family move to London, the city's upper crust begin buzzing with... rumours about him—and a host of characters find their lives changed because of him. Lady Carbury is a widow living in straitened circumstances with her handsome but dissolute son, Sir Felix, and her modest, intelligent daughter, Henrietta. Sir Felix has gambled away his inheritance, and his mother supports them by writing. Her close friend, Mr. Broune, a newspaper publisher, reviews her books favourably because of his regard for her, and clearly wants their relationship to be even closer.
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