Howards End 4k Restoration

Part of our Merchant Ivory Mini Season inspired by the recent documentary about this remarkable period-movie powerhouse.

Simmering with rich emotion and crackling with class politics, Howards End is the crowning glory of the Merchant Ivory catalogue and that rare perfect period drama.

This superbly-mounted adaptation of E.M. Forster's tale of British class tension has exceptional performances all round starring Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Vanessa Redgrave and Emma Thompson who won a BAFTA, Golden Globe and Oscar for best actress in her role as Margaret Schlegel.

Encounter three social classes of England at the beginning of the 20th century in this 4K restoration: the Victorian capitalists (the Wilcoxes) considering themselves as aristocrats, whose only god is money; the enlightened bourgeois (the Schlegels), humanistic and philanthropic; and the workers (the Basts), fighting to survive.

The Schlegel sisters' humanism will be torn apart as they try both to softly knock down the Wilcox's prejudices and to help the Basts. Few films effectively achieve the literary period piece as beautifully as Merchant-Ivory's astounding Howards End, making it probably the best period film of the 1990s.

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