![]() The shadow of impending modernity is to be found in references to the suffragettes, the motor car and train, echoing Forster’s obsession with social and mechanical mobility (one is tempted to speculate that the novelist’s plea “only connect” refers as much to railway junctions as to personal encounters). Nevertheless, this is a more troubling and rigorous inquest into a bygone era than usual. ![]() The attempt to be faithful results in an episodic structure which crams the rise of the lower middle class and the New Woman into two-and-a-half hours. The trademark period accessories and engaging acting ensemble are once again in evidence, but both director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, whose script extracts the sharpest teeth from Forster’s original dialogue, have tried to get to the heart of the novel’s world view. ![]()
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