Movies

May, 1986

Two Free-spirited, passionate young people on an Italian holiday with their elders start to strain against the ties that bind them to strait-laced Edwardian England in A Room with a View (Cinecom). Based on a classic novel written in 1908 by E. M. Forster, this impeccable adaptation by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala fits more snugly onto film than Forster's complex and sprawling A Passage to India, which carried off many of the top movie awards for 1984. Similarly starchy on the surface, Room is a sunny,...