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  • 1979
  • Levitt-Pickman
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 1979
  • Levitt-Pickman
  • 1 h 30 m
The Europeans

Summary A pivotal film for Merchant Ivory, who demonstrate great intelligence and wit with their faithful adaptation of Henry James' story of an encounter between a family or pre-Civil War New Englanders and their European cousins, whose sophisticated ways dazzle and attract some family members and scandalize others. The fortune-hunting Baroness...

Directed By: James Ivory

Written By: Henry James, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

  • 1979
  • Levitt-Pickman
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 1979
  • Levitt-Pickman
  • 1 h 30 m

The Europeans

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Summary A pivotal film for Merchant Ivory, who demonstrate great intelligence and wit with their faithful adaptation of Henry James' story of an encounter between a family or pre-Civil War New Englanders and their European cousins, whose sophisticated ways dazzle and attract some family members and scandalize others. The fortune-hunting Baroness...

Directed By: James Ivory

Written By: Henry James, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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What’s attractive about revisiting The Europeans now is how it’s more indie-flavored, its pleasurable finery and delicate ironies — even the filmic stiltedness — befitting a novel whose lightness of tone James himself recognized when he subtitled it “A Sketch.”
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
70
The Europeans expects you to meet it halfway. When you do, you’re rewarded with a story that’s rich with complicated emotions, despite its self-confident exterior. It’s like its characters in that way, and also in the way, it thinks highly of itself and presents itself accordingly. Modesty never did a movie good.
By Hunter Lanier FULL REVIEW
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The elegantly composed visuals, the stately progression of the scenes, the deliberate understatement of the dialogue, are all as "faithful" to James as a film can be. But that's exactly the film's problem: Ivory hasn't found a way to make his own film, and has ended up with a classroom version of James, a film with no juice or life of its own.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
60
The Europeans isn't simply pretty, it's so relentlessly pretty it becomes almost boring to watch.
By Vincent Canby FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Merchant Ivory Productions
Release Date Oct 8, 1979
Duration 1 h 30 m
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Tagline Based on a novel by Henry James
Website https://cohenmedia.net/product/the-europeans
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Awards

Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
BAFTA Awards
• 3 Nominations

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