The Europeans

Name: The Europeans
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: October 8, 1979
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Helen Stenborg, Kristin Griffith, Lee Remick, Lisa Eichhorn, Nancy New

1979

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Cohen Media Group | Release Date: October 8, 1979 | Not Rated

Starring: Helen Stenborg, Kristin Griffith, Lee Remick, Lisa Eichhorn, Nancy New, Norman Snow, Robin Ellis, Tim Choate, Tim Woodward, Wesley Addy

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 BaronessA 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 Eugenia Muenster (Lee Remick) arrives with her artistic and dashing brother Felix (Tim Woodward) for a transatlantic visit with their cousins, the Wentworths. Less calculating than his sister, the bohemian, happy-go-lucky Felix falls for Gertrude Wentworth (Lisa Eichhorn), who is already being courted (and bored) by the earnest Unitarian Minister suitor Mr. Brand (Norman Snow). Eugenia meanwhile sets her sights on the reserved and attractive Robert Acton (Robin Ellis), who is torn between his captivation with the Baroness and his distrust of her European worldliness. Delightful, elegant and superbly acted, this film inaugurated Merchant Ivory's long winning streak of period literary adaptations. [Cohen Media Group]… Expand

Director: James Ivory

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Robert Abele

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.” Read full review

Hunter Lanier

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. Read full review

Roger Ebert

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. Read full review

Vincent Canby

The Europeans isn't simply pretty, it's so relentlessly pretty it becomes almost boring to watch. Read full review

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