Masterpiece Theatre: Room With a View
by Nicholas Renton
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Actor: Elaine Cassidy, Elizabeth McGovern, Laurence Fox, Sophie Thompson, Timothy SpallDirector: Nicholas Renton
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH BOSTON
Movie Reviews of Masterpiece Theatre: Room With a View
Movie Review: Fairly faithful, but the ending was unnecessary!
Summary: 4 Stars
I thought this was a good adaptation of the book. Most of the actors did a fine job with their roles and the couple of exceptions weren't enough to bring it down for me. I was happy to see that in this version they left in the film a bit of George's sensuality that would have shocked Lucy and her peers of the period. My only real disappointment, but it was a major one, was the added ending. This wasn't an alternate ending, just a several minute epilogue that to me doesn't seem related to E.M. Forster's message or intent.
Summary of Masterpiece Theatre: Room With a View
Studio: Wgbh Wholesale Release Date: 04/15/2008 Run time: 86 minutesMade for Britain's ITV network, this Masterpiece presentation of A Room with a View introduces a fuller version of E.M Forster's 1908 novel. If it isn't as romantic as Merchant Ivory's 1985 film--with that picturesque kiss at the end--Nicholas Renton's adaptation offers its own unique charms. For one, it provides a look at the self-possessed woman Lucy Honeychurch (Elaine Cassidy, Felicia's Journey) a decade after her Italian sojourn. The action alternates, somewhat confusingly, between 1912 and 1922. In both cases, Lucy travels from Surrey to Florence. On the first trip, she and her companion, Miss Bartlett (a fidgety Sophie Thompson) are both taken aback by the left-leaning Mr. Emerson (Timothy Spall) and his railway clerk son, George (Rafe Spall). Not only are the men outspoken in their views, but George is Lucy's social inferior. Despite the obvious attraction between them, she accepts a proposal from the bookish Cecil Vyse (Laurence Fox, giving a more sympathetic performance than Daniel Day-Lewis). For the tragic ending, screenwriter Andrew Davies (Bleak House) draws on notes the author left behind, but didn't incorporate into his book. Ideally, Davies should've turned to Forster's more upbeat 1958 epilogue A View without a Room. Further, it takes awhile to warm up to the central character (previously portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter), though Cassidy ultimately rises to the occasion--especially in the post-war sequences. It's unfortunate Davies didn't support her efforts with stronger material. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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