(Above: Elaine Cassidy and Rafe Spall the PBS "Masterpiece" production of A Room With a View.)Caught the new PBS A Room with a View last night. Very nice, minus Merchant Ivory's porcelain tea cup prettiness and Helena Bonham-Carter's Botticelliesque voluptuousness. I found a framing device with Lucy returning solo to the Pensione Bertolini cast a long shadow of impending dread over the procedings, but some of the storytelling is actually clearer than in the earlier film or, for that matter, Forster.
If I'd seen this film first I'd probably not be musicalizing it, but I found it an interesting, intelligent reading of a story I am simply telling differently.
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