A Room with a View

To be fair, this movie is a fine example of its genre (Victorian period piece), but personally all the repressed sexuality and romanticized acts of rebellion seem both silly and boring.

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The first act is stronger than the rest of the film, but Daniel Day Lewis' performance keeps things more or less interesting.

Daniel Day-Lewis in this is pretty much my hero.

Its something to see DDL play a complete pansy, but its Bonham Carter and Maggie Smith that steal this. I suppose my lack of interest in costume dramas makes me biased, but the inevitable outcome couldn't come fast enough after awhile.

I am not a big fan of costume dramas. But I found this film by James Ivory more than tolerable. It's very playful and fun, as a contrast to the stiff upper lips it portrays. Bonham Carter makes a pleasant to watch debut. She looks really nice in those dresses. Real star of the film is almost unrecognizable Daniel Day-Lewis. He creates character of immensely enjoyable and charismatic geeky snob. Movie is shot very lightly, and there are lots of scenes that show the beauty of the old Europe.

Granted, this type of costume period piece usually isn't my favorite genre. Handsomely mounted and well made with a talented cast, but I felt like the actual romance at the heart of it wasn't particularly well developed. They really only have a few scenes together and I didn't really get the emotional catharsis you get from the best romances. Surprisingly dull.

I had no fuckin’ idea what anyone was talking about in this movie; it may as well have been in Latin. Me trying to understand James Ivory is like a hamster trying to use an iPhone. Just no shared wavelength there. That said DDL playing this insufferable posh dandy was pretty hilarious.

It's another film about true feeling hemmed in by bourgeois English mores, and furthermore about a young woman torn between a stiff upper lipped dweeb and a progressive free thinker. It's just rendered with such immaculate taste in all things: script and performance, European countrysides, and most importantly, a sense of humor. It's an immensely pleasant and happy film, leisurely and love-affirming.

The hard edges of E.M. Foster novel maybe sanded off, but what we get with A Room with a View is an eminently entertaining comedy with an intellectual approach to love.

Is it just E. M. Forster who finds such trivial crap to be good drama, or is it British literature in general? Because whoever it is deserves a punch in the face. I just answered my own question, D. H. Lawrence did the same stuff. So a punch in the face to both of their corpses.

Day-Lewis and Maggie Smith are simply delightful here, most notably for their subtle comedic turns. These performances could veer off into mockery, but instead the fine actors imbue them with humanity. The romantic story at the film's center is overdone and not as compelling, but the writing is consistently clever, the scenery delightful to look at. It all makes for an enjoyable turn every now and then.

More than a great love story. It's both a lighthearted and deeply impassioned inspirational lesson about life.

Boring a times.

Witty, self-effacing, and completely indulgent, then shifts to truth.

Scrumptious, enticing and perfectly orchestrated with all the clamor and superfluousness of the passionate but cold Victorian Age. The cast is depicted as a lovely family that nonetheless lives in a very sexually repressed period, coupled by the authoritarian values of obedience and discipline. In spite of the lush and pristine camera work mirroring the ethos of the age, it however, belabors far too much on the nature of emotional love without separating itself from prior films.

Makes its point in the first quarter of an hour, then belabors it for the rest of the movie

Good film.

I'll watch this movie when I want to get in the mood.

Unless you laugh at mocking older Western values, this is unlikely to be amusing. The writer clearly views traditional values (like not marrying someone solely because you have hot sex & he or she is a "free spirit") w/ contempt & his story's so cartoonish, one-sided & embracing of the absurd Noble Savage idea that I knew he had to be gay even before looking it up. Only oppressed gays (or Marxists) were this dismissive towards values keeping Edwardians from debilitating STDs & single motherhood

Very, very silly. I enjoyed it.

The cast and costumes are gorgeous, and everything else is... fine I guess

A Room with a View is a call to true passion, as love can never be ignored. A stellar cast, and scenery to match, this movie makes the viewer think they as well live a life of leisure. This movie satisfies, not taking the easy route and coupling it with intellect, making it a great romance. If you loved the cinematography of Call Me by your Name but didnt quite appreciate the toxicity then this would 100% be my reccomendation!

“Beethoven always makes her peevish…”

Some period pieces click with me, while others don't. This one looked like it might: it had some beautiful locations and costuming, and some very good music. But as the film played out, I only seemed to care about the secondary characters, knowing that the two main ones would eventually figure out their "forbidden love" problem that caused English writers so much angst years ago.

Lovely indeed! The romance is neither lewd nor harsh, but natural and affectionate. Pepper it with the picturesque settings and superb acting and you end up smiling with blissful satisfaction. MY SCORING: 99-96=Great; 95-90=Very good; 89-85=Good; 84-80=So-so; 79-70=Boring; Below 70=Forget it

Full of promise, wit, and potential. The world it builds is very appealing, and its community of characters is one you'd love to be a part of. Unfortunately, it misidentifies itself as a straight romance, and in the end it spends too much time trying to drum up false chemistry between its oddball, emotionally stunted leads.

How very posh.

Fairly tepid costume drama where the youngsters seem the most miscast. Bonham Carter was very bland, I couldn't see her as the type of feisty heroine to attract two lovers, particularly in that frumpy clothing. It's all filmed with bright colours in very conventional framings, which doesn't liven up an already dull story. I'm sure the book must be far more interesting than this pedestrian adaptation which is less bodice-ripper, more armpit-scratcher.

Phenomenal casting. Daniel Day-Lewis is over the top but wonderful. Helena Bonham Carter is breathtaking. I also loved Maggie Smith and Denholm Elliot.

High class acting.

Standard drama with some charm.

A slow build to a pretty underwhelming climax. HBC plays her character really well and mostly carries the movie. I'm never totally moved by movies about aristocratic people becoming a little more human, but the cut to her kiss with George after her underwhelming kiss with Cecil moved me a bit.

87.000

A pretty but rather tedious adaptation, fatally undermined by poor casting of its principals. Saved somewhat by an early iteration of Maggie Smith playing the single delightful charicature she was to make her own, and Rupert Graves' fringe.

Great music, cinematography, cast, and story

88.125

A well-acted, witty study of propriety versus desire. Every character is delightful.

This elegant and restrained James Ivory costume drama is just graceful enough to keep its audience constantly engaged and just as controlled to never let it be anything more than mildly fascinated. Splendidly made, well-filmed and blessed with a top-notch cast, "A Room With a View" is nevertheless rather unspectacular and its beautifully framed shots quickly evaporate from memory. It is undoubtedly good enough for what it is though and it fully succeeds on the terms it sets.

Well acted and filmed. Besides the talented cast which most period dramas in fact have, nothing else was done that made it stick out from the pack.

Bonham Carter's character is the main thing lifting the story above your standard Victorian romantic drama but the story and setting are so well worn and predictable that it's hard to really get excited.

One of the best adaptation scripts ever written is turned into a truly great film. Everything works in this movie from the opening strains of Verdi's music to the last scene when the lovers return to Florence. Not a wrong note is hit. Perfect casting, deft direction. Beautiful! A definite five star attraction.

Another illustrated "classic" from the people who gave you _The Europeons_ and _The Bostonians_. The illustrations in this instance are handsome enough, though a little heavy on the starch. The whole enterprise comes across as a bit bloodless and effete -- a charge all the more telling in a work that keeps going on about "passion" and attempting to make satirical hash of the timid, the aloof, and the bookish.

"Stunning cast and scenery cannot fill the hole where the heart of this film should be. A satire with an unnaturally soft centre."