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Sylvestra Le Touzel Marchant as Marchant. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Story is set against the backdrop of WWI and follows Christopher Tietjens, a top civil servant from a background of wealth and privilege, whose marriage flounders almost as soon as it begins.

He falls in love with another woman, but he remains honorable for some considerable time to Sylvia who has several affairs. On top of this, Chris is dealing with shell shock and partial memory loss that he endures during the war. Action Drama Romance War. Did you know Edit. Trivia Benedict Cumberbatch claimed that his character of Christopher Tietjen was one of the more admirable he has ever played.

He claimed "[Christopher] has many admirable qualities I'd like to siphon off into my life. User reviews 43 Review.

Top review. Huge rendition of WWI British society. I personally doubt that keywords such as 'love triangle' or 'suffragette' do any justice to this excellent rendition of Ford's novel. Excellent performances by all cast, in particular Benedict Cumberbatch huge in his role!!!

This is the very 'love triangle' I was arguing against just a few seconds ago One more actor who's absolutely perfect in his role is Roger Allam, as General Campion. You can practically feel Stoppard working feverishly to pull all the narrative strings together, which can sometimes come at sacrificing a moment you want to linger.

And the fate of Sylvia and the future of Tietjens and Wannop is left just a bit uncertain, though resolved for all intents and purposes. Clinging to acting like a gentleman and struggling to keep up appearances to leave one failed marriage for another relationship that has the odds stacked against it, he may be just as responsible for dooming his own parade. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Back to IndieWire. World War I provides the backdrop for tidal shifts in history, as Edwardian peace gives way to chaos and carnage.

When Tietjens is ordered to manipulate military statistics to bolster support for the war, he quits in disgust and joins the army, recovering from shell-shock in France while Valentine takes a teaching job in London and Sylvia continues — albeit chastely — to encourage the attention of would-be suitors.

Tietjens is sent to the Western front, but while the trench battles in "Parade's End" merit comparison to similar scenes in " Paths of Glory " and "Gallipoli," the Great War serves primarily as a catalyst for ongoing drama on the home front. It's here that Stoppard juggles a host of supporting characters and relationships, including an affair between Tietjens' colleague Vincent Macmaster Stephen Graham and Edith Duchemin Anne-Marie Duff , the frustrated wife of an ill-fated minister Rufus Sewell who's keeping secrets of his own.

As war continues to fray the fabric of British society, "Parade's End" charts the destructive course of rumors that intensify Tietjens' marital dilemma to the point of taxing his sanity. Inadvertently encourged by Tietjens' less-principled brother Mark Rupert Everett , the rumors have a tragic impact at Groby, the Tietjens family estate, while Valentine's family led by her mother, played by Miranda Richardson is ostracized for their pacifist stance against the war.

These and other characters add depth to the miniseries, but only rarely do they register as dramatically as the central love triangle. Cumberbatch who shot to fame as "Sherlock" and costars in this summer's "Star Trek Into Darkness" and the upcoming "Hobbit" sequels continues his ascension as an unlikely star of old-school distinction: His seething intensity and booming baritone is a perfect match for his role as a good man struggling to maintain his integrity while emotionally coming apart at the seams.

Hall's performance is equally remarkable for the way she elicits sympathy as Sylvia, even as the character remains despicably self-serving. Sylvia genuinely loves Tietjens, after all, and remains chaste despite flirtatious efforts to provoke her husband's jealousy. Sylvia is a mass of contradictions, and with the help of Stoppard's exquisite dialogue, Hall wrangles those contradictions into an emotionally complex, fully dimensional performance, portraying Sylvia as simultaneously devious, selfish, amoral, wounded, vulnerable, and victimized by forces beyond her control.

In stark contrast, Clemens fully embodies Valentine as a young, hopeful idealist who endearingly clings to notions of pure romantic love, even as those notions are challenged by the harsh reality of war and messy human behavior.

She's a beacon of light in Tietjens' emotional darkness, representing the only future that Tietjens can bear to live in. With her cute blonde bob and beaming smile, Clemens radiates that light from within. It's easy to miss details amidst the density of Stoppard's dialogue for example, listen closely for the explanation of Reverend Duchemin's fate , and some characters feel sketchy compared to the fully developed leads.