A Room with A View by EM Forster, the classic Merchant-Ivory period drama film, and the 2006 TV adaptation

By | Published February 15, 2013

Helena Bonham-Carter in "A Room With A View" - Merchant-Ivory film

A Room with A View is a story about a young lady, Lucy Honeychurch, set in Italy and England in the repressed Edwardian era…

The book by E. M. Forster was published in 1908,and went onto celluloid acclaim with Academy Award nomination and worldwide popularity with the Merchant-Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985 starring Helena Bonham-Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Judi Dench, Daniel Day-Lewis, Simon Callow and Rupert Graves.

 

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I love the story, and especially the Merchant-Ivory film, for the romance, growth of the repressed character, the well-drawn support characters, and the locations in Florence and rural England. Learn more about this classic story here.

Lucy and George in the field - A Room With A View - 1985 Merchant-Ivory film

 

You might also be interested in these period-drama-related photo galleries:

A Room with a View (1985) DVD

 

 

More photo galleries from films set in Italy:

Download the Kindle edition of “A Room with a View” by EM Forster, the print version here, or the 2-disk DVD starring Helena Bonham-Carter and Maggie Smith here.

 

Watch the 2006 TV version of “A Room with a View” in full:

 

 

 

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