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DVD Maurice - The Merchant Ivory Collection
The second of the three Merchant/Ivory films adapting E.M. Forster novels (between A Room with a View and Howard's End), Maurice deals with a theme few period pieces dare mention--a young man's struggle with his homosexuality. It's not just a gay coming-of-age story, however. The hero wrestles with British class society as much as his personal and sexual identity.
The film opens on a stormy, windswept beach, as an older man awkwardly instructs young, fatherless Maurice Hall (James Wilby) in the "sacred mysteries" of sex. The same turbulent, wordless struggle with passion lasts throughout this slowly evolving, beautifully filmed story. Novelist E.M. Forster's brainy, British melodrama hinges on choice and compulsion, as the pensive hero falls for two completely different men. First comes frail, suppressed Clive (Hugh Grant), who wants nothing more than classical Platonic harmony... and a straight lifestyle. (Grant's performance is so convincing, one wonders how he ever became a heterosexual sex symbol.) After Clive's wedding, Maurice turns to hypnosis to cure his unspeakable longings. Unfortunately, his "cure" is interrupted by Clive's lustful, brooding, barely literate gamekeeper Scudder (Rupert Graves), a worker more at home gutting rabbits than discussing the classics. Maurice's love for a "social inferior" forces him to confront his illicit desire and his ingrained class snobbery. --Grant Balfour
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Interesting
I love this storie, the book is very interesting, the movie is good but I think sometimes is a little bit cold. H. Grant looks gourgeous. The ending is quite emotional.-
Good themes, message, characters but poor telling
A very detailed and beautiful/refined looking show with good themes on gay love, conformity and class differences and well acted characters but a large deal is assumed that the viewer will know or will get without proper dramatization of those points or, in some cases, even mentioning them or showing background. Some statements/acts seem to come out of nowhere or aren't shown what's their significance. As the film progresses however and characters become more honest and open things become alot better for the viewer and the characters and story improves. The powerful values of love and honesty shine forth.
I think most of this assumption is that you have read the book. For someone that has there is probably no issue, but for anyone who has not, the average viewer, the assumptions very much detract from the enjoyment of this beautiful flim.
Note: Some nice nude shots, some cuddling but no real footage in the film of even "sanitized" sex. There is definitely intimacy however.
Brilliant
The scene opens on Maurice, at a young age, with a rather eccentric, yet wise, teacher on the beach. The teacher, in an attempt to be operate in place of a Father, stresses that important "sacred" love between and man and woman. The movie pushes forward to years later- where Maurice is learning to identify with a growing passion for his room mate, which he find is reciprocated in beautifully dramatic manner. The movie then twists from hidden love to classes of men where one must face the fall of what he has become for the love he feels. The movies are long- but make no mistake- the time fly's by as you become enveloped in a tale of love between the two most unlikely people. I highly recommend this movie.
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Despite a slow weird beginning I enjoyed this movie more than words can say. It was funny weird, thought pervoking and it left me feeling really good despite some real life situations that were not always happy. I could identify with the mormon dude since I know well his pain having come from a strict hardcore Bible Thumping BAPTIST family myself. Trust me "Baptist's" are no more accepting or tolerant of gays or gay friendly folk than the religious neanderthals seen in this movie.
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An indictment of the British class system dressed up like a Ralph Lauren ad, Another Country is the movie that made a very young and very gorgeous Rupert Everett a star. Whatever other ideas it has knocking around its head (and there are quite a lot of them), director Marek Kanievska's adaptation of Julian Mitchell's play is first and foremost a star vehicle for Everett, who played the openly gay main character with a vigor, flair, and smoldering appeal that was rarely seen onscreen in the early '80s. Everett is Guy Bennett, a charming, confident schoolboy in 1930s England who yearns to climb to the top of the social strata at his Eton-like school. His ambitions, however, are waylaid by the young and equally gorgeous James Harcourt (Cary Elwes), with whom he begins a passionate yet... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Rupert Everett - Colin Firth Director(s): Marek Kanievska DVD Release Date: Released the 07 September 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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On his own and away from his militaristic thought police father at home the young seemingly... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Miles Swain DVD Release Date: Released the 09 December 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This could possibly be the cheesiest movie I have ever seen (and I have seen a lot of movies!) Do not waste your money on this low-budget, low-acting-ability, low-camera-experience movie. I enjoy a good "gay movie" every now and then and this was not it. Sorry to disappoint! More Info about this DVD Director(s): Michael D. Akers DVD Release Date: Released the 27 January 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The prestigious filmmaking trio of producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala had made other critically acclaimed films before A Room with a View was released in 1985, but it was this popular film that made them art-house superstars. Splendidly adapted from the novel by E.M. Forster, it's a comedy of the heart, a passionate romance and a study of repression within the British class system of manners and mores. It's that system of rigid behavior that prevents young Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) from accepting the loving advances of a free-spirited suitor (Julian Sands), who fears that she will follow through with her engagement to a priggish intellectual (Daniel Day-Lewis) whose capacity for passion is virtually nonexistent.... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Helena Bonham Carter Director(s): James Ivory DVD Release Date: Released the 06 April 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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