Tonight is the second installment of PBS's Masterpiece Theater's Birdsong, based on the 1993 novel by Sebastian Faulks, about an impossible love during the First World War. The story, centered around Stephen Wraysford, a young English officer, losing men and digging trenches to nowhere under the battlezone known as "No Man's Land"...
Flashback tell us the story of his lost love and the reason for the added anguish he feels now. The modern story has a classic feel to it, more like Hemingway's Farewell To Arms...
Eddie Redmayne, his name fitting, with a blaze of red hair and freckles, you might of seen in a recent Burberry fashion spread plays Stephen in the movie. The actor hasn't had a lot of starring roles yet, but amazingly he has comeback from the dead twice already, not too much of a spoiler for Birdsong, which includes the mircle in the trailer, but amazingly, he was also almost buried alive in his other well known role, that of Jack, the young apprentice to Tom Builder in Pillar's of the Earth...
At the moment you can see Birdsong- here on pbs.org and Pillars of the Earth is available to rent on Netflix.
