Maurice (Film)

Maurice is a film of the American director James Ivory in 1987. The drama based on the novel by EM Forster, and was produced by Merchant Ivory Productions and Channel Four Films.

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Maurice Hall, a young man from the upper class in Victorian England and his same age fellow student, the noble Clive Durham, fall in love while studying in Cambridge. However, their relationship remains at the request of Clive purely platonic (apart from a couple kissing ). Together they skip a lesson for a trip in the countryside. Maurice neglected his school duties and flying from the school because he does not apologize to the Rector. Clive is a lawyer, Maurice stockbroker. After another gay classmate, Lord Risley, provoked an immoral act, betrayed, arrested and sentenced to six months ' imprisonment with hard labor, Clive suffers a nervous breakdown and says to himself, by fate Risleys shocked by Maurice and homosexuality going on. The possessive Maurice Clive tries desperately to take for themselves. This marries his feelings supplanting, befitting Anne Woods. The desperate Maurice examined to help the family doctor of his family, who shows no understanding and advises him to consult a hypnotist to cure his abnormality. But the hypnotist can not change Maurice ' inclination. Trying to get away by hard boxing training from homosexuality, also fails.

When Maurice is again a guest at Clive and his wife, he learns to hunt the young gamekeeper of Durham, Alec Scudder, know. That night, Maurice can not sleep and keeps to refresh his head out the window at the pouring rain, not realizing that observed him down in the park Alec Scudder. When Maurice has again put to bed, Alec rises above a ladder that served him the day for the renovation of the roof, in his room, give him a kiss and disappears again. On another visit of Maurice in the country house of family friends, it follows that at night only Maurice, Alec and an old butler in the house. Because of his inner turmoil plagued by nightmares Maurice opens the window again at night to catch some air while Alec waiting below conceives this as a sign to him. He climbs back through the window and the two sleep together for the first time. Some weeks later, Alec Maurice investigated at his workplace in the city, but Maurice is initially reluctant because he fears that Alec, the son of a butcher, wants to blackmail him. Almost he goes this route from wounded love, because Maurice was afraid a meeting away without reply. The brash Alec feels reduced as a man of the people of the fine gentlemen. Finally, they go to a hotel and sleep again together. Both have seriously fallen in love. But Alec has before, a few days later emigrating with his parents and his brother in Argentina. Maurice suggests that Alec should remain what he refuses.

On the day when the ship is to depart for South America, Maurice goes to the pier to say goodbye to Alec with a gift. But to despair of his family and Maurice ' joy Alec did not appear. Maurice an idea where it is: in the boathouse on the Durham'schen estate. There he met Clive and told him - internally become very strong - about his love for his subordinates, what Clive is horrified. Maurice takes no "advice" from him and lets him, the adapted to the social expectations friend, stand and hurries to the boathouse. He and Alec fall happily into his arms and never want more from each other. Clive, behind a façade of normalcy, must live with the fact that he denies his true feelings.

Criticism

Filmdienst 3/1988: The film adaptation of a novel by EM Forster as carefully as critically describes a world of moral standards and social reality are far apart in the. The high aesthetic appeal of the film is, as it smooths out the problems at the same time its weakness.

Awards

1987 in film Screenplay Ismail Merchant Film score Richard Robbins (composer) Pierre Lhomme Barry Foster (actor) Maurice (novel) E. M. Forster Mental breakdown
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