The Europeans (1979)
- Directed by
- James Ivory
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 5.6 of 10 from 29 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In the 1850s, two European siblings visit their wealthy American cousins in New England. Their worldly manners unsettle and fascinate the puritanical relatives. The story contrasts Old World sophistication with New World simplicity.
leisurelyobservationalwryunderstatedperiod texturegenteelpoised
What happens
The Europeans is a 1979 British Merchant Ivory film, directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant, and with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, based on Henry James's novel The Europeans (1878). It stars Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Tim Woodward and Lisa Eichhorn. It was the first of Merchant Ivory's triptych of Henry James adaptations. It was followed by The Bostonians in 1984 and The Golden Bowl in 2001. The plot follows the interaction between two European siblings and their American cousins. Facing hard times in Europe, Eugenia, a baroness by marriage, and her younger, artistic brother arrived for the first time in New England in the 1850s to meet their wealthy maternal uncle and their three cousins, the Wentworths. Their bohemian sophistication and alien ways dazzle some of their puritanical American relations and arouse suspicion in others. The Europeans was the first of Merchant Ivory's period dramas, the genre for which they became best known. Despite being on a modest budget, it featured lavish costumes and sets. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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