Ok so this is an old movie set in the old times, which may make it sound very boring, BUT I was actually not bored??? when I watched it like 3 years ago it was in 360p and sound quality was terrible but I STILL persevered because I was so invested in the lives of these pre ww1 gays. Hugh grants HAIRRR❤ hugh grants moustache . It has a HAPPY ENDING!!! This is a pretty incoherent review but just understand that it is incredibly gay and british and old and really good. brb I think I’m gonna go rewatch this now. 9/10
Getty Images released some more views of British actors James Wilby (in costume as Maurice Hall), Hugh Grant (in costume as Clive Durham), Ben Kingsley (as Lasker-Jones, but out of costume), and American film director James Ivory during the filming of ‘Maurice’ (directed by James Ivory), London, England, December 1986. (Photo by Mikki Ansin/Getty Images)
@undinecissy Oooh … thank you for spotting these! <333 The first one – Ben Kingsley in a blouson, leaning on Lasker-Jones’ couch – is just amazing. I love Mikki Ansin’s set photography.
Young Hugh as Clive, trading smiles and eye contact with Maurice over the table (again, insanely pretty)
‘Pippa says he writes verse. Mr Hall … is there someone?’
clive and maurice’s love was truly genuine and beautiful, it unfortunately just failed to hold
@simcox Their mischief and twinkly complicity here are beautiful. BTW I love your own later scene with the globe lamps where you serve dessert, then confuse Maurice by passing on Alec’s invitation to ‘bathe between innings’
Found this picture in Nov, 1989, Japanese Screen magazine…
It says, “Even casual jacket and jeans can’t hide the elegance of James Wilby from the inside out! This time he brought us the movie A Summer Story. The upper class gentleman in the film is very suitable for the noble temperament of him. Besides, fans of Maurice will no doubt be exciting and looking forward to the film first show on TV in October.
<333@undinecissy I hope you’ve seen the open-shirted/lips-parted variant on this photo (clearly from the same shoot), in which James is posed next to a classical male statue (just in case anyone missed his beauty)? If not, you’re in for a treat. I bought a Hugh Grant Japanese fanbook to get it… :O
James is sunburnt as well as very open-shirted, making the ‘can’t hide the elegance … upper-class gentleman … noble temperament’ text even more amusing to me. ;)
As well as Mr Ashton in A Summer Story being (as already noted in this thread) a spineless cad, the Japanese Screenwriter might not have realised that this style of crushed linen ‘casual jacket and jeans’ and shirt without tie were almost an upper-middle-class-male English uniform in the mid-1980s. (See also James and Hugh in my Observer magazine scan, and the various shots of Hugh in an open-necked shirt/shorts/plimsolls at the 1987 Venice Film Festival.) Rupert, in contrast, isn’t from that background, and went for a very different Eighties style/s which and/or messed with anything ‘elegant’… [x] [x] [etc]
Films in Frame - My own private Idaho, Maurice, Call me by your name, Moonlight, Brokeback Mountain, Kill your Darlings, Another country, Dorian Gray, I killed my mother, Happy Together
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