Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory

Maurice is a film by Merchant Ivory based on the novel of the same name by E. M. Forster.
I watched this film on the 11th of June and I still am thinking of it today, with it's mesmerising cinematography and narrative pacing that allows the audience to meander through the life of early 20th century England; on the bridge between Victorian and Edwardian society.

Honestly, I have no idea why i didn't watch it sooner. I've seen a Room with a View as I studied the book during my A-Levels and also saw the film Call Me By Your Name which Ivory adapted the screenplay for, which led me to watching this.

The plot evolves around the protagonist Maurice Hall (James Wilby) and his relationships with two men, first Clive Durham (Hugh Grant) and then Alec Scudder (Rupert Graves), in the very early 1900s where homosexuality was a crime. The smooth tone of this film, conjured by handsomely harmonious visuals and a gloriously graceful score, compliments the emotional relationships and feelings explored, drawing the audience into this escapist tunnel that projects this stormy, yet tranquil, story.

I am so very obsessed with the scene on the chair (shown in photo above); I keep replaying it in my head. the music, the framing, the stillness of the room around them. It makes me so god damn Emo that it makes me want to scream like an Actual Banshee because i don't know what else to do with my feelings as there are no words.
This movie triggered me into falling down the rabbit hole of a Hugh Grant Rom Com Bender. I don't know what made this obsession happen (i do it was the hair), but I watched almost all of his films and now... I don't know what to do with my life !


watch the 4k trailer to get a slight capsule of the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78jkhPQBfcg&t=68s

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