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Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Day-Lewis, Rupert Graves, Judi Dench, Simon Callow, Rosemary Leach

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Actuarial Lurker

A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by E.M. Forster that I never read

CJGardner

Since 17 years old, it's never wavered from my top 10 favourite movies of all time. Divine. Glorious. Lush. Utterly deliciously sumptuously romantic. And put away that lemonade!

Julzy

I hope you will both love it as much as I do!

Emma

I actually yelped out loud when I saw this upload.. favorite period drama ever and such a perfect adaptation of the equally wonderful book!!

Ronaldo Sosa

One of my ultimate comfort films and one of my all time favorite Daniel Day-Lewis performances. This film and My Beautiful Laundrette (also starring DDL as a queer juvenile delinquent) were released in the States on the same day and there were several people who watched both films but didn't realize it was the same person in them because of how different the roles and performances were. It really showed people from early on how versatile he was and he might not have had tbe career he did if it weren't for that one-two punch.

ScarlettMi

I can’t wait till you guys get to experience Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey one of these days.

I🖤Kraken

Or 12 hours or so....fingers crossed.

ScarlettMi

I don’t think the Reverend Mr Beebe was hitting on Lucy. My own interpretation of that character doesn’t have me thinking Lucy would be his type.

Ben Gilbert

One of my favorite movies. Rupert Graves was in several literary adaptations. I liked him a lot in Maurice also by Merchant and Ivory from an E.M. Forster novel. Merchant and Ivory adapted several of Foster's novels, Howard's End, A Passage to India, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Maurice and this movie.

Youtalkingtome

I agree. I thought he was in the first scene, but it became more apparent later that he was not.

Laura Dawson

I haven't seen this movie in so long, what a treat! I discovered EM Forster at university after watching this film for the first time. I found a collection of his essays 'Two Cheers for Democracy' in an old bookshop and thus read his wonderful work 'What I Believe' for the first time. I've read it many times over the years and it always hits me how relevant it still is (he wrote it in 1939). Here's a little snippet which is certainly still true today: 'Tolerance, good temper and sympathy are no longer enough in a world which is rent by religious and racial persecution, in a world where ignorance rules, and science, who ought to have ruled, plays the subservient pimp. Tolerance, good temper and sympathy - they are what matter really, and if the human race is not to collapse they must come to the front before long. ' I see a lot of E M Forster in Mr Emmerson, and so have a special fondness for that character.

Youtalkingtome

I don't know the book, but this is a wonderful film.

Youtalkingtome

I have no knowledge of the novel, but it definitely feels like Austin was a strong influence over the story.

Ben Gilbert

There is a movie My Policeman starring Harry Styles based on E.M. Forster and his romantic relationship with a policeman. I haven’t seen it yet but I plan to.

Joy M

I loved it when Rory Gilmore shows Lorelei the scene from this movie to describe her trip to Europe with Emily.

Joy M

Florence was my favorite city in Italy! So walkable, art and history at every turn.

BrummaGen

Haven't seen this properly since it came out! (caught bits of it when repeated on TV). I recall it took Helena B-C a while to shake off the Merchant Ivory period drama romantic heroine typecast after this breakout role (she was only 18 in this). I'd studied E M Forster's novels for my A levels (high school exams) a few years before people started adapting them into film. Your comparison to Jane Austen surprised me at first, as this is set a good century later and feels very different to me. But I guess this particular work of Forster's, like Austen, is a kind of comedy of manners- in his case satirising the stiff formalities that were very much a Victorian hangover during the Edwardian era - with people like the Emmersons representing a new, freeer way of thinking and acting. Not all of Forster's novels are as light, comedic and romantic - A Passage to India, which he published some years later, is much darker, more complex and pessimistic. If you haven't already watched it, I'd highly recommend the David Lean film of A Passage to India (1984) for a different side of Forster - less likely to evoke Austen, I predict, but I think you'll appreciate it.

Genevieve Clerc

Yes, we can feel that it is written without knowing what the follow up is... 6 years later, every man will go in a hell war, and half of them will die.

Lyla

Late to this but so so happy you two watched and enjoyed one of my favourite period films. So beautifully shot, scored and acted. Merchant-Ivory films are always a treat, I hope at some point you have the opportunity to watch a few more! I'll be honest, I was initially slightly worried that the extremes of elite English society at this time would be somewhat difficult to understand or get into for those outside of the UK, especially when so much of it revolves around the minituaie of what is suggested or implied, rather than anything really said or done in any big dramatic sense. As you noted, even Lucy's breakup with Cecil is very understated. But I never should have doubted you of course, you are the best reactors! You both were really astute in what you noticed and commented on, I loved hearing your thoughts. The book is also great and does expand more on some of the class tensions and complications going on here, such as more explicitly that one of the main reasons Lucy couldn't admit her love for George was because of their class difference, which of course would have been taboo for the time, but is something that I think is less clearly emphasised in the film perhaps. A lot of the disdain that George and his father get from the others at the beginning of the film is because of their class, and their lesser understanding, knowledge and participation in the specifics of upper class etiquette. Being so outspoken as to keep suggesting to change rooms, really would have been quite forward and impolite in these kinds of circles, it's mad! Mainly though I'm particularly glad you watched this as it's one of my favourite Denholm Elliott performances. He's so sweet, charming and funny in this role, but also so fragile and gentle. His desperation to help everyone is very endearing, I find it quite a moving performance.

Actuarial Lurker

Many people romanticize the repressed men in many Victorian and Edwardian "Bronte-style" novels. I've heard it said that in real life, even BACK THEN, the only reason these men were perfect faithful "suitors" was that they lacked the backbone to break norms and be rakes. A Bronte hero was not faithful because he was in love but because he couldn't cheat if he tried since other women didn't want him... You have to look but NOT touch to have actually chosen to stay... In Bram Stoker's Dracula, written in 1897- just a few years before THIS novel- Lucy had 3 potential husbands and she really chose between the rich guy with power and the American with "the big knife" because the latter actually had some balls! The Doctor was not really a choice because he was poor and a wimp. Perhaps this was the birth of the bad boy....where the "audacity" of suggesting switching rooms in that early scene didn't require a 30 minute etiquette debate. On the other hand without these niceties we do eventually devolve into the elevated discourse at a MAGA rally

Actuarial Lurker

Julian Sands was in The Killing Fields which you saw recently

Actuarial Lurker

Been to Rome but not Florence. It's on my list of next European trips....