A Room with a View (1985)
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans? (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: James Ivory
Written By: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, E.M. Forster
Starring: Denholm Elliott, Judi Dench, Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith, Rupert Graves, Simon Callow, James Wilby, Daniel Day-Lewis, Rosemary Leach, Fabia Drake, Patrick Godfrey
Genre: Romance
Country: UK
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A Room with a View belongs to 47 collections
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eveelun | 58 18th |
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To be fair, this movie is a fine example of its genre (Victorian period piece), but personally all the repressed sexuality and romanticized acts of rebellion seem both silly and boring.
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Bojangles | 40 22nd |
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british women be faintin
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KasperL | 60 50th |
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The first act is stronger than the rest of the film, but Daniel Day Lewis' performance keeps things more or less interesting.
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JakeAesthete | 62 60th |
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Daniel Day-Lewis in this is pretty much my hero.
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chemical404 | 60 59th |
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I am not a big fan of costume dramas. But I found this film by James Ivory more than tolerable. It's very playful and fun, as a contrast to the stiff upper lips it portrays. Bonham Carter makes a pleasant to watch debut. She looks really nice in those dresses. Real star of the film is almost unrecognizable Daniel Day-Lewis. He creates character of immensely enjoyable and charismatic geeky snob. Movie is shot very lightly, and there are lots of scenes that show the beauty of the old Europe.
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WWallce4prez | 66 38th |
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Its something to see DDL play a complete pansy, but its Bonham Carter and Maggie Smith that steal this. I suppose my lack of interest in costume dramas makes me biased, but the inevitable outcome couldn't come fast enough after awhile.
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TheDiceman | 60 62nd |
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Good film.
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Ytadel | 4 43rd |
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I had no fuckin’ idea what anyone was talking about in this movie; it may as well have been in Latin. Me trying to understand James Ivory is like a hamster trying to use an iPhone. Just no shared wavelength there. That said DDL playing this insufferable posh dandy was pretty hilarious.
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Nathan S | 5 93rd |
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It's another film about true feeling hemmed in by bourgeois English mores, and furthermore about a young woman torn between a stiff upper lipped dweeb and a progressive free thinker. It's just rendered with such immaculate taste in all things: script and performance, European countrysides, and most importantly, a sense of humor. It's an immensely pleasant and happy film, leisurely and love-affirming.
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darkman | 67 26th |
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Boring a times.
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Icarus | 82 69th |
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Day-Lewis and Maggie Smith are simply delightful here, most notably for their subtle comedic turns. These performances could veer off into mockery, but instead the fine actors imbue them with humanity. The romantic story at the film's center is overdone and not as compelling, but the writing is consistently clever, the scenery delightful to look at. It all makes for an enjoyable turn every now and then.
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paulofilmo | 74 90th |
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Witty, self-effacing, and completely indulgent, then shifts to truth.
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Va3H | 84 46th |
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Scrumptious, enticing and perfectly orchestrated with all the clamor and superfluousness of the passionate but cold Victorian Age. The cast is depicted as a lovely family that nonetheless lives in a very sexually repressed period, coupled by the authoritarian values of obedience and discipline. In spite of the lush and pristine camera work mirroring the ethos of the age, it however, belabors far too much on the nature of emotional love without separating itself from prior films.
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GeneSiskel | 100 89th |
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More than a great love story. It's both a lighthearted and deeply impassioned inspirational lesson about life.
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| 1 | RottenT | 100 98th |
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The hard edges of E.M. Foster novel maybe sanded off, but what we get with A Room with a View is an eminently entertaining comedy with an intellectual approach to love.
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| Average Percentile 59.68% from 877 Ratings |  |