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`Howards End': Resplendent Return to Forster's England

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19920424
Author:Rita Kempley

Director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, who also brought E.M. Forster's novels "Maurice" and "Room With a View" to screen, have outdone themselves in the sublime "Howards End." A sumptuous return to Forster's England, it portrays a people as plump as the scones they devour at tea time and a mood as expansive as King Edward's waistline. At the same time, it reveals a perversely constricting under-structure of tightly laced corsets and lingering Victorianism. Something is bound to give, if only a stitch in the social fabric.

Set at the confluence of the 19th and 20th centuries, ...

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