James Ivory
Auteur van A Room with a View [1985 film]
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Fotografie: Credit: Timoko Kikuchi highfallsfilmfestival.com
Werken van James Ivory
Autobiography of a princess, also being the adventures of an American film director in the land of the Maharajas (1975) 7 exemplaren
A Room With A View / The Ipcress File — Director — 2 exemplaren
Heat and Dust [Import anglais] 1 exemplaar
The Guru — Director — 1 exemplaar
The Europeans [DVD] [2020] 1 exemplaar
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- Ivory, James Francis
- Geboortedatum
- 1928-06-07
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Klamath Falls, Oregon, USA
- Opleiding
- University of Oregon (School of Architecture and Allied Arts)
University of Southern California (School of Cinematic Arts) - Beroepen
- film director
- Relaties
- Merchant, Ismail (partner and collaborator)
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer (collaborator)
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- #20,410
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- 4.0
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- ISBNs
- 77
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This was a fairly brave film to make in the 1980s, when public sentiment towards male homosexuality had turned negative again in the wake of the AIDs crisis.
So there are many things to commend. However, for me there are two glaring problems. And I cannot say whether these arise from the film or the original text. The first is that the relationship between Maurice and Scudder seems so unlikely. Not because it is between two men but because they are so incompatible in every way except lust. Scudder is portrayed as a nasty amoral little man, the very opposite of Maurice.
Secondly, although the film ends romantically with Maurice and Scudder holed up in the boathouse making love by firelight, a none too subtle contrast with the (presumed) unsatisfactory marriage of Durham and Anne, that totally avoid the questions which Duham has posed earlier in the film – how are two men in such a relationship to actually live together in that world, a world which has rejected them socially and legally? Maurice proclaims that he is an outlaw, and that is precisely what he is getting into; but the implications of that are never shown. The problems would be compounded by the incompatibility already mentioned. It's difficult to avoid comparisons with the ending of the same team's film of Forster's 'A Room With A View', where a couple also defy convention – but where the same societal problems will never arise in such an overwhelming way, especially as the male hero of that is far less dependent anyway on society's approval for practical things like money. Maybe at the end of the day the difference is the point; but it would have been braver still to have confronted these issues head on.… (meer)