Film
Cinema Rediscovered: Maurice
- Director
- James Ivory
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 140 mins
Back in 1987, Merchant-Ivory followed the success of A Room with a View with another E.M. Forster adaptation about homosexuality in Edwardian England. At Cambridge, middle-class Maurice (James Wilby) has a platonic relationship with fellow student Clive (Hugh Grant, in his first major role), only to be shattered when Clive goes and gets married after graduation. Relevance and grit are stifled by the film’s period setting and all that remains is just another tastefully British wallow in the lovingly photographed lifestyles of a long-gone landed gentry.
This new 4K restoration is screened in the Restored and Rediscovered strand of Cinema Rediscovered.
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