The script itself is not up the level of Remains of the Day, but then E.M.Forster is not Ishiguro (Never Let Me Go). Nevertheless E.M.Forster gives us a huge, complex story that holds our interest for the entire 142 minutes. And the Ivory-Merchant team contributes a beautiful setpiece, complete with perfect cinematography, locations, costumes and a team of the finest actors in Britain. And two of the Redgrave family to play mother and daughter. The acting from everyone on screen is phenomenal!
“Based on the Novel by E.M. Forster”
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $8M
- Box Office
- $26.13M
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Cast
Emma ThompsonMargaret Schlegel
Helena Bonham CarterHelen Schlegel
Anthony HopkinsHenry J. Wilcox
Samuel WestLeonard Bast
Vanessa RedgraveRuth Wilcox
Adrian Ross MagentyTibby Schlegel
Prunella ScalesAunt Juley
James WilbyCharles WilcoxJoseph BennettPaul Wilcox
Jo KendallAnnie
Jemma RedgraveEvie Wilcox
Crispin Bonham-CarterAlbert FussellMedia
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I think this might be the pinnacle of the Merchant Ivory storytelling world (with thanks to E.M. Forster), as a strong ensemble cast assembles to tell a tale of Edwardian Britain that brings into stark focus a class system that is just beginning to show some cracks. "Wilcox" (Anthony Hopkins) is what I suppose you'd call nouveau riche. A millionaire industrialist who has acquired quite a few grand country properties from the increasingly impoverished aristocracy. When his first wife (Vanessa Redgrave) dies at the eponymous country cottage, she has apparently promised it to her friend…
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A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class …
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