The Impressionists - BBC at its best

This docudrama about the lives of Manet, Monet, Renoir and Degas has been a visual feast. Recreating some of the scenes in the actual locations has meant some great and stunning camera work, particuarly pleasing to the eye when the dappled sunlight and so on favoured by the impressionists is filmed. Performances are keen and good and a sense of the time is reasonably well-captured. If you missed this - its coming to a close this sunday - and you have an interest in this pivotal movement, then invest in the inevitable dvd. Some interesting Franco-Prussian war scenes too in there too.