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A Room With A View (James Ivory, UK, 1985)
Chapter 6:
The Reverend Arthur Beebe, the Reverend Cuthbert Eager, Mr Emerson, Mr George Emerson, Miss Eleanor Lavish, Miss Charlotte Bartlett, and Miss Lucy Honeychurch drive out in carriages to see a view. Italians drive them.
‘It was Phaethon who drove them to Fiesole that memorable day, a youth all irresponsibility and fire … and it was Persephone whom he asked leave to pick up on the way, saying that she was his sister – Persephone, tall and slender and pale … To her Mr. Eager objected, saying that here was the thin edge of the wedge … But the ladies interceded, and when it had been made clear that it was a very great favour, the goddess was allowed to mount beside the god.’
– E. M. Forster, A Room With A View
Such a beautiful sequence in the movie, and a perfect shot to evoke it.
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