A Room with a View (1985 film)
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| Directed by | James Ivory |
| Screenplay by | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| Based on | A Room with a View by E. M. Forster |
| Produced by | Ismail Merchant |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Tony Pierce-Roberts |
| Edited by | Humphrey Dixon |
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| Distributed by | Curzon Film Distributors |
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Running time | 117 minutes[1] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Budget | |
| Box office | $21 million[2] |
A Room with a View is a 1985 British romance film directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. It is 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.
Plot
[edit]In 1907 a young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, and her cousin and chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett, stay at the Pensione Bertolini while on holiday in Florence. They are disappointed that their rooms lack a view of the River Arno as promised. At dinner they meet other English guests: the Reverend Mr. Beebe; two elderly spinster sisters, the Misses Alan; romance author Eleanor Lavish; the freethinking Mr. Emerson; and his quiet, handsome son George.
Learning about Charlotte and Lucy's disappointment at not having a view of the river, Mr. Emerson and George offer to exchange rooms, though Charlotte considers the suggestion indelicate. Mr. Beebe mediates and the switch is made. While touring the Piazza della Signoria the next day, Lucy witnesses a local man being brutally stabbed and killed. She faints but George Emerson appears and comes to her aid. When Lucy has recovered, the two have a brief but unchaperoned discussion before returning to the pensione.
Later Charlotte, Lucy and the Emersons join other British tourists for a day trip to the Fiesole countryside. The carriage driver canoodles with his girlfriend, sitting beside him, which upsets Reverend Eager, who insists the girlfriend get off the carriage in the middle of the countryside. Wishing to engage in gossip unsuitable for Lucy, Charlotte and Miss Lavish encourage her to go for a walk; Lucy goes looking for Mr. Beebe. The Italian driver, possibly misunderstanding Lucy's awkward Italian or possibly mischievously playing Cupid, instead leads her to where George Emerson is admiring the view from a hillside. Seeing Lucy across a poppy field, he suddenly embraces and passionately kisses her. Charlotte appears and intervenes. Worried that Lucy's mother will consider her an inadequate chaperone, Charlotte swears Lucy to secrecy and cuts their trip short.
Upon returning to Surrey in England, Lucy says nothing to her mother about the incident and pretends to forget it. She is soon engaged to Cecil Vyse, a wealthy and socially prominent man who is cold, snobbish, and pretentious. Cecil loves Lucy, but he and his mother consider the Honeychurch family their social inferiors, which offends Mrs. Honeychurch. Lucy soon learns that Mr. Emerson is moving into Sir Harry Otway's rental cottage, with George visiting at weekends. Lucy intended the two Misses Alan to live there and is cross with Cecil on learning that through a chance meeting with the Emersons in London, Cecil recommended the cottage to them. He proclaims his motive was to annoy Sir Harry, whom Cecil considers a snob; he assumes Harry will find the Emersons “too common".
George's presence upends Lucy's life, and her suppressed feelings for him surface. Cecil, her fiancé, asks her permission to kiss her, then does so awkwardly. Lucy’s non sequitur comment that the people she met in Italy were “extraordinary” invites a comparison to the impromptu passionate kiss she received from George. Meanwhile, Lucy's brother, Freddy, becomes friends with George. Freddy invites George to play tennis at Windy Corner, the Honeychurch home, during which Cecil reads Miss Lavish's latest novel set in Italy. As Cecil mockingly reads aloud to Lucy and George, they recognize a scene as being identical to their encounter in the poppy field in Fiesole. Cecil, still reading, is oblivious when George passionately kisses Lucy in the garden.
She confronts Charlotte, who admits to telling Miss Lavish about the kiss in the poppy field, which was then used in her story. Lucy orders George to leave Windy Corner and never return. He says that Cecil sees her only as a possession and will never love her for herself, as he would. Lucy seems unmoved, but soon after ends her engagement to Cecil, saying they are incompatible.
To escape the ensuing fallout, Lucy arranges to travel to Greece with the Misses Alan. George, unable to be around Lucy, arranges for his father to move to London, unaware that Lucy is no longer engaged. When Lucy calls at Mr. Beebe's home to fetch Charlotte, she is confronted by Mr. Emerson, who happens to be there. She finally realizes and admits her true feelings for George.
At the end, newlyweds George and Lucy honeymoon at the Italian pensione where they met, in the room with a view, overlooking Florence's Duomo.
Cast
[edit]- Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy Honeychurch
- Julian Sands as George Emerson
- Maggie Smith as Charlotte Bartlett
- Denholm Elliott as Mr. Emerson
- Daniel Day-Lewis as Cecil Vyse
- Simon Callow as The Reverend Mr. Beebe
- Rosemary Leach as Mrs. Honeychurch, Lucy's mother
- Rupert Graves as Freddy Honeychurch, Lucy's brother
- Patrick Godfrey as The Reverend Mr. Eager
- Judi Dench as Eleanor Lavish, a novelist
- Fabia Drake as Miss Catharine Alan
- Joan Henley as Miss Teresa Alan
- Amanda Walker as Cockney Signora, pension owner
- Maria Britneva as Mrs. Vyse, Cecil's mother
- Mia Fothergill as Minnie Beebe
- Peter Cellier as Sir Harry Otway, a landlord
Background
[edit]E. M. Forster began to write A Room with a View during a trip to Italy in the winter of 1901–02 when he was twenty-two. It was the first novel he worked on; however, he put it away before returning to it a few years later. Forster finished first two other novels: Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) and then The Longest Journey (1907). A Room with a View was finally published in 1908.
Set in Italy and England, A Room with a View follows Lucy Honeychurch, a proper young Englishwoman who discovers passion while on a trip to Italy. At her return to the restrained culture of Edwardian-era England, she must choose between two opposite men: the free-thinking George Emerson and the repressed aesthete Cecil Vyse.
The story is both a romance and a humorous critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. The novel, Forster's third, was very well received, better than his previous two, but it is considered lighter than his two best-regarded later works Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). In Forster's own appreciation "A Room with a View, may not be his best, but may very well be his nicest".[4]
In 1946, 20th Century Fox offered $25,000 for the film rights to A Room with a View, but Forster did not hold cinema in high regard and refused although the studio was willing to pay him even more.[5] Following Forster's death in 1970, the board of fellows of King's College, Cambridge, inherited the rights to his books.[6] However, Donald A Parry, chief executor, turned down all approaches. Ten years later, the film rights for Forster's novels became available when the film enthusiast Professor Bernard Williams became chief executor.[7] The trustees of Forster's estate invited producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory to Cambridge to discuss filming Forster.[7]
Casting
[edit]The role of Lucy Honeychurch was Helena Bonham Carter's breakthrough as a film actress.[8] She was nineteen at the time and had just finished the art-house film Lady Jane (1986).[9] Ivory gave her the role as he found "she was very quick, very smart, and very beautiful".[8] She fitted Forster's description of Lucy as "a young lady with a quantity of dark hair and a very pretty, pale, undeveloped face" .
Rupert Everett auditioned for the role of Cecil Vyse. He would rather have played George Emerson, but Ivory thought that he was not quite right for it. It was Julian Sands who was cast as the male lead. Sands had gained notice as the British photographer in The Killing Fields (1984).[8]
Daniel Day-Lewis came to the attention of Ivory through his role in the play Another Country as the gay student Guy Bennet.[10] Given the choice of either George Emerson or Cecil Vyse, he took on the more challenging role of Cecil.[11] The role of Freddy Honeychurch, Lucy's brother, went to Rupert Graves, in his film debut.[11] He had had a minor role as one of the schoolboys in the play Another Country.[11]
Simon Callow had been Ivory's original choice for the character of Harry Hamilton-Paul, the friend of the Nawab, in the Merchant Ivory film Heat and Dust, but had committed to a play in London's West End.[8] He had created the role of Mozart in the original London stage production of Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus (1979) and made his film debut in a small role in the film adaptation.[8] In A Room with a View, he was cast as the vicar Mr. Beebe.[12]
The supporting cast included veteran performers: Five years earlier, Maggie Smith had worked in another Merchant Ivory film, Quartet.[13] With a prominent theatre career, Judi Dench had made her film debut in 1964, but she took the supporting role of Eleanor Lavish. Dench and Ivory had disagreements during the filming of A Room with a View because, among other things, he suggested that she play her character as a Scot.[14]
Filming
[edit]The film was made on a budget of $3 million that included investment by Cinecom in the U.S, and from Goldcrest Films, the National Film Finance Corporation, and Curzon Film Distributors in Great Britain.[15] A Room with a View was shot extensively on location in Florence, where Merchant Ivory had the Piazza della Signoria cleared for filming.[16] Pensione Quisisana served as the Pensione Bertolini, also Vila Maiano in some interiors.[17] From its decoration of the walls they asked a painter to do a series of decorative artworks called grotesques that were used for titles between sections of the film, like chapter headings, following chapter titles in Forster's novel.[18]
Other scenes were filmed in London and around the town of Sevenoaks in Kent where they borrowed the Kent family estate of film critic John Pym for their country scenes. Lucy's engagement party was filmed in the grounds of Emmetts Garden.[19] Foxwold House near Chiddingstone was used for the Honeychurch house and an artificial pond was built in the forest of the property to use as the Sacred Lake. Two years later, the Great Storm of 1987 would tear through the area and destroy the gardens and almost 80 acres of the surrounding forest.[20] In London, the Linley Sambourne House in South Kensington was used for Cecil's house and the Estonian Legation on Queensway was used for the boarding house where the Miss Alans live.[21] In all, A Room with a View was shot in ten weeks: four in Italy and six in England.[22] The film includes a notable scene of full frontal male nudity in which George, Freddy, and Mr. Beebe go skinnydipping in a pond.[23][24][25]
Reception
[edit]Critical reception
[edit]The film received positive reviews from critics, holding a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 35 reviews, with a weighted average of 8.40/10. The site's consensus reads: "The hard edges of E.M Forster’s novel may be sanded off, but what we get with A Room with a View is an eminently entertaining comedy with an intellectual approach to love".[26] According to Metacritic, which sampled the opinions of 21 critics and calculated a score of 83 out of 100, the film received "universal acclaim".[27] Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars, writing: "It is an intellectual film, but intellectual about emotions: It encourages us to think about how we feel, instead of simply acting on our feelings."[28] A Room With a View appeared on 61 critics' ten-best lists in 1986, making it one of the most acclaimed films of the year.[29]
Box office
[edit]The film made $4.4 million at the US box office in the first 12 weeks of release.[3] After six months on release, it returned a distributor’s gross of £2,026,304 in Britain. It made US $14 million from North America.[30] Goldcrest Films invested £460,000 in the film and earned £1,901,000 meaning they made a profit of £1,441,000.[31]
Accolades
[edit]Soundtrack
[edit]- "O mio babbino caro" (from Gianni Schicchi by Puccini) – Kiri Te Kanawa with the LPO, conducted by Sir John Pritchard
- "The Pensione Bertollini"
- "Lucy, Charlotte, and Miss Lavish See the City"
- "In the Piazza Signoria"
- "The Embankment"
- "Phaeton and Persephone"
- "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta" (from La Rondine, Act One by Puccini) – Te Kanawa with the LPO, conducted by Pritchard
- "The Storm"
- "Home, and the Betrothal"
- "The Sacred Lake"
- "The Allan Sisters"
- "In the National Gallery"
- "Windy Corner"
- "Habanera" (from Carmen by Georges Bizet)
- "The Broken Engagement"
- "Return to Florence"
- "End Titles"
- Original music composed by Richard Robbins
- Soundtrack album produced by Simon Heyworth
- Arrangements by Frances Shaw and Barrie Guard
- Music published by Filmtrax PLC
See also
[edit]- Baedeker, a travel guide mentioned several times in the film
- Chiddingstone Castle, used as a filming location
- BFI Top 100 British films
Notes
[edit]- ^ The film was the first unrated film in the United States to receive a Best Picture nom.
References
[edit]- ^ "A Room with a View (PG)". British Board of Film Classification. 1 January 1986. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
- ^ a b A Room with a View at Box Office Mojo
- ^ a b "Bad Beginning." Sunday Times [London, England] 15 June 1986: 45. The Sunday Times Digital Archive. Web. 8 April 2014.
- ^ "A Room With a View". merchantivory.com. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ Ingersollg, Filming Forster, p. 119
- ^ Long, James Ivory in Conversation, p. 211
- ^ a b Ingersollg, Filming Forster, p. 79
- ^ a b c d e Long, James Ivory in Conversation, p. 204
- ^ Long, James Ivory in Conversation, p. 203
- ^ Ingersollg, Filming Forster, p. 81
- ^ a b c Ingersollg, Filming Forster, p. 82
- ^ Ingersollg, Filming Forster, p. 83
- ^ Long, James Ivory in Conversation, p. 206
- ^ Long, James Ivory in Conversation, p. 207
- ^ Long, The Films of Merchant Ivory, p. 138
- ^ Long, The Films of Merchant Ivory, p. 139
- ^ Ingersollg, Filming Forster, p. 91
- ^ Ingersollg, Filming Forster, p. 92
- ^ Kent Film Office. "Kent Film Office A Room with a View Film Focus". Archived from the original on 19 July 2013.
- ^ John Pym (1995). Merchant Ivory's English Landscape. pp. 48–9.
- ^ John Pym (1995). Merchant Ivory's English Landscape. p. 50.
- ^ Long, James Ivory in Conversation, p. 199
- ^ "Why you should revisit the beautifully romantic 'A Room with a View'". The Seattle Times. 7 September 2020.
- ^ Vivarelli, Nick (6 October 2017). "James Ivory on 'Call Me by Your Name' and Why American Male Actors Won't Do Nude Scenes". Variety.com.
- ^ "A Room with a View (1985)". Film Comment. 17 February 2016.
- ^ "A Room With a View (1985)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ "A Room with a View Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ "A Room with a View Movie Review (1986)". Rogerebert.com. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ McGilligan, Pat; Rowland, Mark (18 January 1987). "The Best and the Bummers". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 18 August 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ^ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 343
- ^ Eberts, Jake; Illott, Terry (1990). My indecision is final. Faber and Faber. p. 657.
- ^ "The 34th Academy Awards (1962) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
- ^ McCarthy, Todd (18 February 1987). "'Platoon', 'Room' Top Oscar List; Stone Thrice Blessed, Orion Hot". Variety. p. 4.
- ^ "The 1987 Oscar Winners – RopeofSilicon.com Award Show Central". Ropeofsilicon.com. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
- ^ "The ASC Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography". American Society of Cinematographers. Archived from the original on 2 August 2011.
- ^ "BAFTA Awards: Film in 1987". British Academy Film Awards. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ^ "Best Cinematography in a Theatrical Feature Film" (PDF). British Society of Cinematographers. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
- ^ "A Room with a View". David di Donatello. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
- ^ "39th DGA Awards". Directors Guild of America Awards. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
- ^ "A Room with a View". Golden Globe Awards. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
- ^ "38 Years of Nominees and Winners" (PDF). Independent Spirit Awards. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
- ^ "KCFCC Award Winners – 1980-89". Kansas City Film Critics Circle. 14 December 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
- ^ "1986 Award Winners". National Board of Review. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
- ^ "Past Awards". National Society of Film Critics. 19 December 2009. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
- ^ "Awards – New York Film Critics Circle". New York Film Critics Circle. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
- ^ "VENICE FILM FESTIVAL – 1986". Retrieved 6 October 2013.
- ^ "Awards Winners". Writers Guild of America Awards. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
Sources
[edit]- Ingersoll, Earl G. Filming Forster: The Challenges of Adapting E.M. Forster's Novels for the Screen. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2012, ISBN 978-1-61147-682-8
- Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Citadel Press. 1993, ISBN 0-8065-1470-1
- Long, Robert Emmet. James Ivory in Conversation. University of California Press, 2005, ISBN 0-520-23415-4.
External links
[edit]- A Room with a View on the Merchant Ivory Productions website
- A Room with a View at IMDb
- A Room with a View at AllMovie
- A Room with a View at Box Office Mojo
- A Room with a View at Rotten Tomatoes
- A Room with a View at Metacritic
- A Room with a View at the BFI's Screenonline
- A Room with a View: English Hearts and Italian Sunshine an essay by John Pym at the Criterion Collection
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- 1980s British films
- 1980s English-language films
- 1985 independent films
- 1985 romantic drama films
- Best Film BAFTA Award winners
- British historical romance films
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- E. M. Forster in performing arts
- English-language independent films
- English-language romantic drama films
- Film4 Productions films
- Films about interclass romance
- Films based on British novels
- Films directed by James Ivory
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전망 좋은 방
『바라 보는 좋은 방 』(나가메의 좋은 하야, A Room with a View )은 1908년 에 출판된 E.M. 포스터의 소설이다.
줄거리
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이탈리아 의 피렌체 에, 곁들인 샬럿 바틀렛과 함께 방문한 영국 중산계급의 영양 루시 허니처치이지만, 펜션은 예약시의 약속과 달리 안뜰에 접한 방이었다. 식사의 자리에서 그 불만을 이야기하고 있으면, 같은 테이블에서 식사하고 있던 에머슨 부모와 자식이, 자신들의 방은 아르노 강 이 바라볼 수 있는 전망이 좋은 방이므로 교환합시다고 제안한다.
그러나 샬롯은 그들이 낯선 남성으로 게다가 신분이 다른 노동자 계급이기 때문에 정중하게 거절한다. 퇴출하면 같은 교구의 신부가 있어 , 그에게서 그것을 받아들이도록 촉구되어 받아들인다. 다음날, 일행은 마차로 교외에 피크닉에 가지만, 루시는 모두에게서 넘어졌을 때, 에머슨의 아들 조지로부터 열렬한 키스를 빼앗긴다. 그것을 알게 된 후견인의 샬럿은 여행을 중단하고 급히 귀국한다.
그 후 루시는 상류계급 청년 세실 바이스와 약혼한다. 그러나, 숲의 산책으로 처음 만난 키스가 너무 맛있지 않고, 루시는 환멸한다. 세실은 런던 의 내셔널 갤러리 에서 이탈리아 회화를 보았을 때 알게 된 에머슨 부모와 자식에게 이웃의 코티지가 빈 집이라고 가르쳐 버리지만, 거기는 이탈리아 여행에서 루시가 알게 된 늙은 알란 자매에게 소개하고있다 한 장소였다. 에머슨 부모와 자식이 먼저 계약해 버리고, 그것을 알게 된 루시의 동생 프레디는 신부를 데리고 인사에 가고, 직감으로 친숙한 프레디는 숲 속의 비밀 연못에서 물놀이를 하라고 제의, 3 사람은 거기서 벌거벗고 놀기 시작한다. 루시는 어머니와 세실의 3명으로 숲을 산책 중에 그들을 만나 버리고, 루시는 전라의 조지와 재회한다.
그 후, 정식으로 조지를 집에 초대해, 테니스 등에 흥미하지만, 그것을 여소에 세실은 독서를 한다. 읽고 있던 책은 이탈리아였던 속물의 유행 작가 라비슈가 자신들의 이탈리아 여행을 베이스로 한 것이었다. 샬롯 이외 모르는 것이 책이 되고 있는 것에 격노한 루시는 샬롯을 묻자, 라비쉬에게 말한 것을 인정한다. 분노가 맞지 않는 루시는 조지와는 금륜 때 만나지 않는다고 전해, 나아가 세실과의 약혼도 파기한다. 스캔들을 피하기 위해 앨런 자매가 여행하는 콘스탄티노플에 합류하기로 하지만 인사회 도중에 에머슨 부모와 자식의 이사를 알고 에머슨씨와 이야기를 하고 혼란스러운 감정을 바로잡게 한다.
일본어 번역
[ 편집 ]- 니시자키 헌 ·나카지마 토모코역 “보기 좋은 방” 치쿠마 문고 2001
- 호조 문서역 『보기 좋은 방 EM포스터 저작집 2』 미스즈 서방 1993
영화
[ 편집 ]1985년에 영화화되어 1986년 3월에 전미 공개되었다(1987년 일본 공개).
《전망 좋은 방》(영어: A Room with a View)은 1985년 제작된 영국의 드라마 영화이다. 제임스 아이보리가 감독을, 루스 프라워 자브발라가 각본을 맡았다. E. M. 포스터의 동명 소설이 영화의 원작이다. 1986 영국 아카데미상 작품상 수상작이다.
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