All in the family at Brideshead Revisited UK premiere

Emma Thompson gets up close and personal with a, erm, signpost at the UK premiere of Brideshead Revisited, in which she plays Lady Marchmain, the genteel matriarch with the touch of steel Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty

It was a family affair for Emma Thompson - her mother, actor and director Phyllida Law, was also at the premiere Photograph: Max Nash/AFP

So was Thompson's partner, Greg Wise. The two famously met on the set of Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility Photograph: Zak Hussein/Press Association

Hayley Atwell, who plays Thompson's daughter in the new film, was last seen in UK cinemas as one-third of the menage a trois in The Duchess Photograph: Zak Hussein /Press Association

Director Julian Jarrold at the UK premiere of Brideshead Revisited, his new film adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh novel about Catholicism among the diamond-encrusted set Photograph: Zak Hussein/Press Association

Singer Will Young at the UK premiere of Brideshead Revisited Photograph: Zak Hussein/Press Association

All together now ... the Brideshead Revisited cast at the film's UK premiere: (from left to right) Felicity Jones (who plays Cordelia Flyte), Emma Thompson (Lady Marchmain), Matthew Goode (Charles Ryder), Hayley Atwell (Julia Flyte) and Ben Whishaw (Sebastian Flyte) Photograph: Dave Hogan/Getty