A Room with a View (1985 film) A Room with a View (1985 film) A Room with a View is a 1985 British romance film directed by James Ivory, screenplay written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and produced by Ismail Merchant, of E. M. Forster's novel of the same name (1908). The film closely follows the novel by use of chapter titles to distinguish thematic segments. Set in England and Italy, it is about a young woman named Lucy Honeychurch in the restrictive and repressed culture of Edwardian England, and her developing love for a free-spirited young man, George Emerson. It stars Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy and
A Room with a View offering to swap rooms. He and his son George both have rooms with pleasant views of the Arno, and argues, "Women like looking at a view; men don’t." Mr Emerson's offer causes Miss Bartlett some consternation partly because she looks down on the Emersons because of their unconventional behaviour, and partly because she fears that acceptance would place her and her young cousin under an "unseemly obligation." She decidedly rejects the offer. However, another guest at the pension, an Anglican clergyman named Mr Beebe, assures Miss Bartlett that the Emersons only meant to be kind, and persuades the two women