A Room With A View (1986)
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Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 0
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Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by E.M. Forster, A Room with a View is a shining example of Merchant-Ivory's ability to achieve maximum quality and opulence at minimum cost. Set during the Edwardian Era, the film stars Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy Honeychurch, who like all proper young British ladies is compelled to tour Europe in the company of an older chaperone -- in this instance, her spinster cousin Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith). While in Italy, the ladies make the
Dec 1, 1985 Wide
Jul 4, 2000
Cinecom Pictures
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Cast
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Maggie Smith
Charlotte Bartlet -
Helena Bonham Carter
Lucy Honeychurch -
Denholm Elliott
Mr. Emerson -
Julian Sands
George Emerson -
Daniel Day-Lewis
Cecil Vyse -
Simon Callow
Mr. Beebe -
Judi Dench
Miss Lavish -
Rosemary Leach
Mrs. Honeychurch -
Rupert Graves
Freddy Honeychurch -
Patrick Godfrey
Mr. Eager -
Fabia Drake
Catherine Alan -
Joan Henley
Teresa Alan -
Maria Britneva
Mrs. Vyse -
Amanda Walker
The Cockney Signora -
Peter Cellier
Sir Harry Otway -
Mia Fothergill
Minnie Beebe -
Patricia Lawrence
Mrs. Butterworth -
Mirio Guidelli
Santa Croce Guide -
Freddy Korner
Mr. Floyd -
Elizabeth Marangoni
Miss Pole -
Lucca Rossi
Phaeton -
Isabella Celani
Persephone -
Luigi di Fiore
Murdered Youth -
Kitty Aldridge
The New Charlotte and L... -
Matyelok Gibbs
New Charlotte
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All Critics (28) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (0) | DVD (11)
A Room With a View is not only uncharacteristically benign for Forster, but also blithely, elegantly funny, which is a fit description of [this]first-rate film adaptation...
Top CriticIt is an intellectual film, but intellectual about emotions: It encourages us to think about how we feel, instead of simply acting on our feelings.
Glorious romance most likely to appeal to older kids.
Merchant Ivory's first artistic and commercial hit is a light, well-acted, nicely mounted comedy of manners based on Forster's classic novel; Daniel Day-Lewis steals all of his scenes
James Ivory directs this gentle, poetic, comic film with grace and passion for its characters in this adaptation of the E.M. Forster novel.
t's hard to believe A Room with a View cost so little; the costumes and sets are dazzling and the acting is superb -- from two-time Oscar-winner Smith to the smallest role, there's not a false note.
Audience Reviews for A Room With A View
Super Reviewer
Daniel Day-Lewis can play tough, gruff, evil characters like Bill the Butcher and Daniel Plainview and even the sexually voracious Tomas, but can he play an upper-class fop? Yes, he can. The man's range is extraordinary.
This film is everything that is good and bad about a Merchant/Ivory production. It's opulent, classic, and essentially British, but it's also occasionally boring, making the most of the most trifling conflicts. Part of this is film's inability as a medium to make compelling commonplace disagreements in a way that is unique to books, but Ivory's direction, distant shots of four or more characters, accentuates the germane nature of the film's tiny conflicts -- about a room with a view, the settling of accounts, and a writer's fictionalizing of a character's dalliance.
Overall, if you like Merchant/Ivory films, then you've probably already seen this one, and if you don't, this isn't much different from the rest.
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- Mr. Beebe: If she ever takes to living as she plays, it will be very exciting-both for us and for her.
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- Mr. Emerson: But you have been lying to everyone... including yourself.
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- Charlotte Bartlet: I shall never forgive myself.
- Lucy Honeychurch: You always say that, Charlotte. And then you always do forgive yourself.
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- Lucy Honeychurch: I dont want to be a Leonardo I want to be myself!
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- Mr. Emerson: There's only one thing impossible - that's to love and to part.
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- Freddy Honeychurch: I say! That's an introduction. 'Come and have a bathe'!
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April 4, 2013:
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: 1927-2013The award-winning novelist and screenwriter has passed away at the age of 85.
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- Zimmer mit Aussicht (DE)
