7/4/2023 0 Comments Howard's end em forster![]() ![]() From Bast's dank lodgings to Howards End's cosy rurality - into which the Schlegel sisters bring an energy the place has not known before - the perfect period detail is not an end in itself, but allows Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson to create extraordinarily convincing portraits. Meanwhile, the low expectations of the clerking classes are exemplified by a meek Leonard Bast (Samuel West), whose affair with Margaret's sister Helen (Helena Bonham Carter) leads to tragedy. But the note is destroyed by the Wilcox family of snobs-in-residence, whose head (Anthony Hopkins) then falls in love with Margaret. ![]() ![]() Matriarchal Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave) dies after writing a letter bequeathing her country home, Howards End, to new friend Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson). This adaptation of EM Forster's novel has an elegance that never hides grim insights into the upper middle classes. ![]()
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