FLORENCE, ITALY – The city of Florence honored Hollywood director James Ivory with the Fiorino d’Oro, during 30-year anniversary celebrations for his film A Room With a View.
The Cinema Odeon held a gala screening afterward with the director and castmembers Helena Bonham Carter and Julian Sands. Anniversary celebrations involved even the British Institute and the cinema La Compagnia with an Ivory film retrospective.
A Room With a View was filmed extensively on location in Florence, but also in London and around the village of Sevenoaks in Kent. Florence’s Mayor Dario Nardella called Ivory a great ambassador for cinema, saying the film was «a real act of love towards Florence, and Florence embraces the maestro again today.»
A Room with a View was taken by a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century.
James Ivory produced the award-winning film adaptation in 1985 directed by James Ivory and starring Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Judi Dench, Denholm Elliott , Julian Sands , Daniel Day-Lewis and Simon Callow.
The film was a success at the box office as well as receiving universal critical acclaim. At the 59th Academy Awards it was nominated for eight awards including Best Picture, winning three; Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design. It also won five British Academy Film Awards and one Golden Globe Award. In 1999 the British Film Institute voted A Room with a View the 73rd greatest British film of the 20th Century.
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