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 Eager promptly requires that she leave them. In another carriage, Mr Emerson remarks how it is defeat rather than victory to part two people in love. Wandering about in the high fields after abandoning Miss Lavish and Miss Bartlett to their gossip, Lucy searches for Mr Beebe, and asks in awkward Italian for the driver to show her where everyone is. Misunderstanding, he leads her to a field where George is admiring the view. Overcome by Lucy's beauty amongst a field of violets, he takes her in his arms and kisses her passionately. However, they are interrupted by a shocked