![]() ![]() ![]() Inside the house her businessman husband, Henry (Anthony Hopkins), and greedy children busy themselves in separate worlds while her younger son, Paul (Joseph Bennett), flirts with his freethinking houseguest, Helen Schlegel (a radiant Helena Bonham Carter). The film serves Forster by taking to heart the book’s epigraph: “Only connect.”Ĭheck the hypnotic opening scene: In the hush of evening, Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave) - the mistress of a country manor called Howards End - strolls the grounds, blissfully unconcerned that she’s trailing her gown in the sopping grass. Forster’s effort to draw meaning and hope from a society divided by money, class, culture and social irresponsibility is time-lier than ever in the post- Bonfire era. ![]() Incisively witty, provocative and acted to perfection, this sublime entertainment is a career peak for producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who also triumphed with Forster’s Room With a View. Rest assured, there is nothing pedantic about the movie version, which hews closer to Forster’s humanism than his symbolism. Forster’s classic novel Howards End by treating it as an allegory for the class war in Edwardian England. Academics usually squeeze the life out of E.M. ![]()
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