| Title: |
Maurice |
| Category: |
Feature |
| Length: |
140 Minutes |
| Filmmaker(s): |
James Ivory |
| Year: |
1987 |
| Country: |
United Kingdom |
Showing:
Armory - Fri 9:00 pm (4/7)
Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, E.M. Forster’s
Maurice is a story of coming to terms with one’s sexuality in the face of disapproval and misunderstanding. At a time when homosexuality was a crime, two young men at Cambridge must keep their relationship completely secret.
Starring: Denholm Elliott, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Judy Parfitt, Billie Whitelaw, James Wilby
This 30th anniversary screening will be accompanied by a clip from Call Me by Your Name
, the upcoming Sony Classics release co-written by James Ivory
Director’s Statement: James Ivory 
I think the kind of problems that Forster dealt with in his fiction nearly a hundred years ago, those problems are still current, they don’t go away. And one of the basic problems is honesty and living an honest life. Living a life that is not corrupted by all sorts of influences like social class and all of that. But a life where you really follow your emotions, follow your truest beliefs, and you try to live an honest life. That’s really what
A Room with a View and
Maurice are about and equally so
Howards End (AIFF2017). I don’t think that ever changes, I think what people get out of these films is a pretty modern message, coming from an author who wrote it almost a hundred years ago.These are not new problems, they are enduring problems of life today everywhere.
