What movie did YOU just FINISH watching?
Feb 1, 2021 16:00:57 GMT
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Post by kijii on Feb 1, 2021 16:00:57 GMT
Maurice (1987) / James Ivory
Re-watched -Streamed from Cohen Film Collection.
I will be streaming other mainly British restored films from this platform with the free trial.
It looks like an interesting streaming site with films that are generally not available in the American format. www.cohenfilmcollection.net/films.aspx
This is one of those great Merchant/Ivory films with a great British cast: James Wilby (as Maurice), Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow, Barry Foster, Judy Parfitt, Ben Kingsley, and (way down in the cast list) Helena Bonham Carter. This is a period piece, beautifully set in upper-class Edwardian England just after he turn of the century. The story is about a young man's discovery of his homosexual attraction to another young man (Hugh Grant) at Cambridge. When Grant , later marries, this leaves Maurice alone with his own homosexual desires in a country which outlaws homosexually.
Maurice Hall (James Wilby) : I'm an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.
Clive Durham : Maurice, I hope nothing is wrong?
Maurice Hall (Hugh Grant): Pretty well everything. You would think so.
Clive Durham : Very well, I'm at your service. My advice there is to sleep here tonight and ask Anne. Where a woman is in question, it's always better to ask another woman.
Maurice Hall : I'm not here to see Anne.
[pauses]
Maurice Hall : I'm in love with Alec Scudder.
Clive Durham : What a grotesque announcement.
Maurice Hall : [ironically] Most grotesque. But I felt I should tell you.
Clive Durham : Maurice, Maurice, we did everything we could when you and I clashed out the subject.
Maurice Hall : When you brought yourself to kiss my hand.
Clive Durham : Don't allude to that! Come in here.
[lowers his voice]
Clive Durham : I am more sorry for you than I can possibly say and I do, do beg you to resist to return on this obsession.
Maurice Hall : I don't need advice. I'm flesh and blood Clive, if you'll condescend to such low things. I've shared with Alec.
Clive Durham : Shared what?
Maurice Hall : Everything. Alec slept with me in the Russet Room when you and Anne were away.
Clive Durham : [turns away from him] Oh God.
Re-watched -Streamed from Cohen Film Collection.
I will be streaming other mainly British restored films from this platform with the free trial.
It looks like an interesting streaming site with films that are generally not available in the American format. www.cohenfilmcollection.net/films.aspx
This is one of those great Merchant/Ivory films with a great British cast: James Wilby (as Maurice), Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow, Barry Foster, Judy Parfitt, Ben Kingsley, and (way down in the cast list) Helena Bonham Carter. This is a period piece, beautifully set in upper-class Edwardian England just after he turn of the century. The story is about a young man's discovery of his homosexual attraction to another young man (Hugh Grant) at Cambridge. When Grant , later marries, this leaves Maurice alone with his own homosexual desires in a country which outlaws homosexually.
Maurice Hall (James Wilby) : I'm an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.
Clive Durham : Maurice, I hope nothing is wrong?
Maurice Hall (Hugh Grant): Pretty well everything. You would think so.
Clive Durham : Very well, I'm at your service. My advice there is to sleep here tonight and ask Anne. Where a woman is in question, it's always better to ask another woman.
Maurice Hall : I'm not here to see Anne.
[pauses]
Maurice Hall : I'm in love with Alec Scudder.
Clive Durham : What a grotesque announcement.
Maurice Hall : [ironically] Most grotesque. But I felt I should tell you.
Clive Durham : Maurice, Maurice, we did everything we could when you and I clashed out the subject.
Maurice Hall : When you brought yourself to kiss my hand.
Clive Durham : Don't allude to that! Come in here.
[lowers his voice]
Clive Durham : I am more sorry for you than I can possibly say and I do, do beg you to resist to return on this obsession.
Maurice Hall : I don't need advice. I'm flesh and blood Clive, if you'll condescend to such low things. I've shared with Alec.
Clive Durham : Shared what?
Maurice Hall : Everything. Alec slept with me in the Russet Room when you and Anne were away.
Clive Durham : [turns away from him] Oh God.