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A Room with a View [2007]

starring: Laurence Fox, Timothy Spall, Rafe Spall, Elaine Cassidy

January 12, 2009
I really liked the idea of this, to do something non-Merchant Ivory with a Forster novel adaptation. It's not that I don't like the MI version, I love it, but I could have put it to one side had this been a great adapataion. Unfortunately it was thoroughly disappointing, especially adding an ending which, if my copy of the book is to be believed, Forster would not have approved of.

The acting is OK on the whole, but it's hard going for the most part because it appears to be trying so hard not to be Merchant Ivory. Timothy Spall and Sophie Thompson are both good, but the leads are too insipid.

On the ending: Forster (in some editions) adds a postscript to the story. In this he quite clearly states that George Emerson ... Read More: