A Room With a View

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Room With A View, 1986.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Room With A View, 1986.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Room With A View, 1986.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Room With A View, 1986.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Room With A View, 1986.

Touring Florence, at the Piazza della Signoria, producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory working from the E.M. Forster novel, as Lucy (Helena Bonham Carter) observes Italian street action, and is rescued by rogue-ish George (Julian Sands), in A Room With A View 1986.

Following her eventful trip to Florence, we meet the brother and mother (Rupert Graves, Rosemary Leach) of Lucy (Helena Bonham-Carter) and Daniel Day-Lewis, who’s become her fiancè, which doesn’t please the vicar Beebe (Simon Callow), in the Merchant-Ivory breakthrough feature A Room With A View 1986.

Straight to the topic, we meet Lucy (Helena Bonham Carter), her chaperone (Maggie Smith) and their less polite but equally English fellows (Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands as the Emersons), ca. 1908, at a Florentine pensione, Judi Dench also dining, opening the Merchant-Ivory hit from the E.M. Forster novel, A Room With A View 1986.

An Englishwoman visiting Florence is torn between her straitlaced fiance and a young Bohemian in the acclaimed Merchant-Ivory period drama A Room with a View (1985).