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 eccentric Emersons, since hearing a startling comment made by another clergyman, Mr Eager, who says that Mr Emerson, "murdered his wife in the sight of God." Later in the week, a party made up of Mr Beebe, Mr Eager, the Emersons, Miss Lavish, Miss Bartlett and Lucy make their way to Fiesole, located on a scenic height above Florence, in carriages driven by Italians. At first the driver is permitted to invite a pretty girl he claims is his sister onto the box of the carriage to accompany them. But later, when they sit closer and he kisses her, Mr