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Part of Voyage to Italy: Romance in the Bel Paese! Click HERE to see all the films in this series.
40th Anniversary!
Originally Shown at the Westdale! (Aug. 15 - Sept. 11, 1986)
Merchant Ivory Productions, led by director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, became a household name with A Room with a View, the first of their extraordinary adaptations of E. M. Forster novels. A cherubic nineteen-year-old Helena Bonham Carter plays Lucy Honeychurch, a young, independent-minded, upper-class Edwardian woman who is trying to sort out her burgeoning romantic feelings, divided between an enigmatic free spirit (Julian Sands) she meets on vacation in Florence and the priggish bookworm (Daniel Day-Lewis) to whom she becomes engaged back in the more corseted Surrey. Funny, sexy, and sophisticated, this gargantuan art-house hit features a sublime supporting cast - including Simon Callow, Judi Dench, Denholm Elliott, and Maggie Smith - and remains a touchstone of intelligent romantic cinema.
Jeffrey Bender
Jeffrey Bender has hosted a number of in-person and online Film Talks with the Westdale, most recently 'Six from the Master of Suspense!', a six-film survey of the films of Alfred Hitchcock. He joins us this summer to host 'Voyage to Italy: Romance in the Bel Paese', with three quintessential love stories set against the backdrop of the Italian landscape, along with 'Mock-busters! Parody, Satire and Farce in 80s Comedy', featuring a trio of laugh-out-loud classics from arguably the greatest decade for big-screen comedies.