A Room with a View (1985)

Director:

James Ivory

Writers:

E.M. Forster (novel)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (screenplay)

Release Date:

11 April 1986 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Plot:

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views...

Plot Keywords:

1900s | Florence Italy | Gardening | Mother Daughter Relationship | Author

Awards:

Won 3 Oscars. Another 21 wins & 19 nominations

Cast

Maggie Smith	...	Charlotte Bartlett, a chaperon
Helena Bonham Carter	...	Lucy Honeychurch, Miss Bartlett's cousin and charge (as Helena Bonham-Carter)
Denholm Elliott	...	Mr. Emerson, an English tourist
Julian Sands	...	George Emerson
Simon Callow	...	The Reverend Mr. Arthur Beebe
Patrick Godfrey	...	The Reverend Mr. Eager, Chaplain of the Anglican Church in Florence
Judi Dench	...	Eleanor Lavish, a novelist
Fabia Drake	...	Miss Catharine Alan
Joan Henley	...	Miss Teresa Alan
Amanda Walker	...	The Cockney Signora
Daniel Day-Lewis	...	Cecil Vyse (as Daniel Day Lewis)
Maria Britneva	...	Mrs. Vyse, Cecil's mother
Rosemary Leach	...	Mrs. Marian Honeychurch
Rupert Graves	...	Freddy Honeychurch
Peter Cellier	...	Sir Harry Otway, a landlord

Also Known As:

Camera con vista (Italy) [it]
Chambre avec vue (France) [fr]
Domatio me thea (Greece) [el]
Ett rum med utsikt (Sweden) [sv]
Hotel i Florens (Finland: Swedish title) [sv]
Hotelli Firenzessä (Finland) [fi]
Manzarali oda (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Pokój z widokiem (Poland) [pl]
Quarto com Vista Sobre a Cidade (Portugal) [pt]
Szoba kilátással (Hungary) [hu]
Uma Janela Para o Amor (Brazil) [pt]
Un amor en Florencia (Argentina) [es]
Una habitación con vistas (Spain) [es]
Værelse med udsigt (Denmark) [da]
Zimmer mit Aussicht (West Germany) [de]

Runtime:

UK:117 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English | Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Singapore:NC-16 | Portugal:M/12 | Iceland:12 | Spain:T | Netherlands:6 | Canada:G (Quebec) | USA:R | Norway:16 | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Chile:14 | Finland:S | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | West Germany:12 (f)

Filming Locations:

Bluebell Railway, East Sussex, England, UK

Company:

Goldcrest Films International

Trivia:

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and A Room with a View (1985) both opened in New York on the same day, March 7, 1986. Both movies featured Daniel Day-Lewis in prominent and very different roles: in A Room with a View, he played a repressed, snobbish Edwardian upperclassman, while in Laundrette, he played a lower-class gay ex-skinhead in love with an ambitious Pakistani businessman in Thatcher's London. When American critics saw Day-Lewis, who was then virtually unknown in the US, in two such different roles on the same day, many (including Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times and Vincent Canby of The New York Times) raved about the talent it must have taken him to play such vastly different characters.

Goofs:

Continuity: The hand that Charlotte Bartlett holds her purse in when she falls over the bicycle at the station.

Quotes:

Freddy Honeychurch: [meeting George for the first time] Come and have a bathe.
George Emerson: I should like that.
Revered Beebe: [laughs] That's the best introduction I've ever heard. "How do you do. Come and have a bathe."

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Danger Mouse: A Dune with a View (#9.5)" (1992)

Soundtrack:

Chi il bel sogno di Doretta

Edwardian love

A Room with a View possesses a fabulous cast, beautiful cinematography, an awesome adapted script, and a tale of oppressed desire during the paradigm shift from the repressive Victorian age to the more liberal Edwardian time. The film moves at a deliberate pace of country strolls and carriage rides filling the viewer with literary awakenings and music compositions. Poppies, barley, and Florence architecture decorate the screen.

The film is witty if anything with carefree individuals roaming about with leisure on their minds. Pure love and desire aches throughout and Italy is the place to bring the lovers together.

It is a handsome picture. Detailed period pieces and costumes. The cast is phenomenal! Helena Bohnam Carter portrays the peevish Lucy Honeychurch on her way to becoming her prudish Cousin and chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett (The Great Maggie Smith.) However The spirit of Italy will prevent such an occurrence and fill Miss Honeychurch with pure desire for George, the man who was brought up from the evils and hate of the world.

The adaptation is superb. Fun. It is a film to live in and swim in the sacred lake. One of the best films of the 80's. Terrific!