No matter how much you might detest its cricket bat subtlety, rampant classism and wildly patronising depictions of the working class, there’s something inherently, undeniably charming with regards to’concerning’with respect to Julian Fellowes’ fabulously frocked aristoporn. Partly, one might surmise, because its furious preoccupation with titles, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding malwear, and the proper way to hold a salad in/with regard to’concerning’regarding k, makes it feel as much a fantasy as The Witcher — merely’barely with vampires and revenants replaced by the horrors of impropriety.###The series’ second enormous’vast’massive’tremendous screen affair sets itself up as A Very Downton Holiday, with Lord Grantham, Lady Crawley (Elizabeth McGovern), Lady Edith (Laura Carmichael) and assorted family members including the newly married Tom (Allen Leech) and Lucy (Tuppence Middleton), packing their suitcases to head off to France along with a perpetually scowling Mr Carson (Jim Carter). Their goal? To discover the mysterious origins of their new holiday home, rooted as it is in the passions of the Dowager’s youth. Back home, the roof is leaking and the Abbey is need of repairs, driving the family to allow a procession of dreadful (but well-paying) ‘kinema’ individual through the doors to shoot a motion picture, much to the delight of the servants and the eye-rolling consternation of the family.###With a cast this enormous’vast’massive’tremendous , Fellowes has a great many mouths to feed, yet he serves up more than abundant’ample’plentiful courses to keep e grossly one sated , balancing the whole affair with practiced ease and allowing almost eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully character to enjoy their moment in the sun (sometimes literally). After 12 years, Fellowes knows exactly what his audience wants, providing ample opportunity in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Mr Carson to lecture continental servants with regards to’concerning’with respect to the proper way to dress (“They’re grossly French, the French, aren’t they?”), Daisy to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure starry-eyed at the arrival of Laura Haddock’s eye-catching’good-shaped’appealing’charming’fascinating’gorgeous leading lady (who turns out to be terribly rude and — even worse — frightfully common), Lady Mary to enjoy a little frisson with Hugh Dancy’s dashing director, and Maggie Smith’s gloriously razor-tongued Violet to deliver an array of withering barbs (“Ms. Dalglish has all the charm of a verucca.”)###As a capstone in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the series, it’s as perfectly pitched a send-off as one could possibly wish in/with regard to’concerning’regarding .###As a film, this a serviceably staged and steadfastly perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding med period melodrama; as a capstone in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the series, it’s as perfectly pitched a send-off as one could possibly wish in/with regard to’concerning’regarding . There are ghastly Hollywood types, Brits abroad, the whiff of scandal and a bittersweet coda that manages to break down the barriers between upstairs and downstairs so perfectly that it’s all but assured to melt the ice around even the most Marxist of hearts.###Whether this is to be the Crawleys’ final engagement remains to be seen, but it’s hard to imagine a more perfect note upon which to end the series. With a fond, unashamedly sentimental send-off that sees the family heading into the 1930s “with heads held high”, this genuinely feels like the end of an era.