A Room with a View
- Great Britain
- 1985
- 112'
- Cinema at the Patrician Hall
Lucy Honeychurch, a girl from a respectable family, goes on her first ever trip to Italy, accompanied by her elder cousin Charlotta. A series of events that follows transforms Lucy from an inexperienced girl into a fully mature and self-aware woman. When Lucy witnesses a local man being brutally killed, she has a chance encounter with George, a handsome man for whom she soon falls. Ever watchful, Charlotta decides that going back to England is the best option for Lucy. Back home, Lucy gets convinced by her mother and brother to accept a marriage proposal from Cecil, a well-mannered young man. Instead of the happiness she should enjoy, she still feels there is something missing. To makes matters worse, George and his father suddenly settle in a location not too far away from Lucy’s home. This is the moment when Lucy realises how deep her affection for George really is. The film ‘A Room with a View’ is a classic romance about the power of love that bows to no conventions. It is an intimate story filled with irony and deeply human in nature.
- Directed by: James Ivory
- Screenplay: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Photography: Tony Pierce-Roberts
- Music: Francis Shaw, Richard Robbins
- Editing: Humphrey Dixon
- Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith, Rupert Graves, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench
- Production: Great Britain
An American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is famous for his sophisticated adaptations of the classic English literature. The film ‘A Room with a View’ is an adaptation of E. M. Forster’s novel from 1908, under the same title, which was his first great film success cemented by a multitude of awards. His film reputation was further solidified by the two films starring Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins – ‘Howards End’ (1991, another adaptation of a novel by E.M. Forster) and ‘Remains of the Day’ (1993, based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro). He has also made three films based on the books by Henry James – ‘The Europeans (1979),’ ‘The Bostonians (1984),’ and ‘The Golden Bowl’ (2000). Many of his films were frequently nominated for Academy Awards, in various categories. In 2018, at 89, James Ivory won an Academy Award for the Best Adapted Screenplay for the film ‘Call Me by Your Name’ (2017) by Luca Guadagnino. This made him the oldest winner of the prize in the entire history of the Academy Awards.
