A Room with a View (1986)

Directed by

James Ivory

Genre

drama film, romantic comedy

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 56m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 845 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young English woman in the early 1900s travels to Italy and meets a passionate young man. She returns to her proper life in England where she must choose between a safe engagement and her true feelings.

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What happens

A Room with a View is a 1985 British romance film directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. It was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who adapted E. M. Forster's 1908 novel A Room with a View. Set in England and Italy, it is about a young woman named Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) in the final throes of the restrictive and repressed culture of Edwardian England and her developing love for a free-spirited young man, George Emerson (Julian Sands). Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench and Simon Callow feature in supporting roles. The film closely follows the novel by the use of chapter titles to distinguish thematic segments. A Room with a View received universal critical acclaim and was a box-office success. At the 59th Academy Awards it was nominated for eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture) and won three: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design. It also won five British Academy Film Awards and a Golden Globe. In 1999 the British Film Institute placed A Room with a View 73rd on its list of the top 100 British films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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