A Room With a View

This is a charming 1985 production of A Room With a View. It stars Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy Honeychurch and Daniel Day-Lewis as Lucy's fiance Cecil. The characters and scenes are drawn more simply and less subtly than in E.M. Forster's novel. The pagan elements as well as the social themes that inform the plot, such as gender and class equality, are reduced in prominence--mostly reduced from theme to background--and the plot as love triangle is given more weight. (In the final scene, the specifically pagan conclusion of the novel has been replaced by church bells.) The film is optimistic and wholesome and lovely, like the novel.

I do like the Edwardian clothing, if it's been accurately represented.