Maurice (Blu-ray) R
A love story of unforgettable passion
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 5, 2017
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Cohen Media Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Wilby, Hugh Grant & Rupert Graves | |
Performer: | Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow, Phoebe Nicholls, Barry Foster, Billie Whitelaw, Judy Parfitt, Patrick Godfrey, Peter Eyre, Michael Jenn & Ben Kingsley | |
Directed by | James Ivory | |
Edited by | Katherine Wenning | |
Composition by | Richard Robbins | |
Produced by | Ismail Merchant | |
Director of Photography: | Pierre Lhomme |
Entertainment Reviews:
...A keen sense of the exquisite....Subtly scathing...
New York Times
Rating: 3/5 --
A beautifully photographed film with top-drawer performances from a fine cast.
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Spirituality and Practice
Ivory provides his critique with an exquisite cinematic tableau....[H]e turns a tale of hopeful liberation into a classic love story.
Premiere
Rating: 4.5/5 --
What's really revolutionary about this film is the way Ivory photographs male bodies in what were, by the standards of mainstream cinema at the time, quite explicit sex scenes.
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Eye for Film
Rating: 5/5 --
Maurice is a candid, lucid, passionate film.
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Guardian
Rating: 4/5 --
This elegant, heart-rending romance is now ripe for the reclaiming as a gay landmark.
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Times (UK)
It's as handsomely mounted as any of its more beloved brethren, especially in a shiny new 4k restoration, but it's no mystery why it was largely ignored back in the day.
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SF Weekly
Product Description:
E.M. Forster's provocative 1914 novel, published posthumously in 1971, is brought to the screen by director James Ivory in this beautifully photographed film. Set in pre-World War I England, the film concerns the coming of age of two young men who meet at Cambridge University and fall in love. Maurice (James Wilby, who played Anthony Hopkins's son, Charles Wilcox, in REMAINS OF THE DAY) and Clive (Hugh Grant) struggle with their hearts within the confines of a rigid society's moral hypocrisy. Clive eventually succumbs to a traditional life after witnessing the social banishment and imprisonment endured by another gay friend, Viscount Risley (Mark Tandy). But Maurice struggles with his sexual desires and chooses a more difficult, but honest, way of life. When a young gamekeeper (Rupert Graves) returns his affections, Maurice experiences his first real happiness. The film deals with trademark Merchant-Ivory themes involving individuals who are trapped by their society's strict conventions and who often attempt to break free, with varying consequences of fulfillment or disaster.