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 to the square in front of the church only to have the novelist abandon Lucy (still having her Baedeker) in pursuit of an old man who, she says, is her "local colour box". Inside the church, Lucy meets the Emersons again. Although their manners are awkward and they have been treated rather coolly by many of the other guests of the pension, Lucy finds that she likes the Emersons, and repeatedly encounters them in Florence. One afternoon while touring Piazza della Signoria, Lucy and George Emerson separately witness a murder. George sees that Lucy is overcome, and catches her as