Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

Great movie, greater DVD:

Merchant-Ivory's glorious adaptation of EM Forster's novel is given a beautiful presentation on DVD by the folks at Image Entertainment, who continue their commitment to release titles that the major studios are overlooking.

While it doesn't feature much in the way of supplements, their DVD of A ROOM WITH A VIEW features a transfer that blows away all previous video editions of the film. I compared it directly with my old CBS/FOX laserdisc, and the DVD wins hands-down. Gone is the gauzy look the old LD... more info

Merchant/Ivory bursts onto the scene:

One of the most charming films of the last century was this chamber love story. Extremely literate and intelligent, this Victorian story is easily accessible as an extremely well versed John Hughes could easily write the simple boy-meets-girl storyline. Fortunately for us, he was unavailable and the resulting film, made outside the Hollywood Studio system, avoids many current clich?s and uses smart character to propel the story. Well, this is a Merchant Ivory film so propel might be too big a word.... more info

They do not come better than this:

James Ivory's "Room With a View" is a tour de force. Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by E.M. Forster, "A Room with a View" is a shining example of Merchant-Ivory's ability to achieve maximum quality and opulence at minimum cost. It shows the life of Lucy Honeychurch starting from Italy, going through England and ending in Italy. This is a thoughtful movie that requires one to understand the standards of England then to realize that it is fighting against the set rigid style of life. This... more info

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