Maurice.

National Review | November 6, 1987| | Copyright

Maurice

WITH Maurice, the producer Ismail Merchant and the director James Ivory, this time with Kit Hesketh-Harvey replacing Ruth Prawer Jhabvala at the writing end, have made their best film to date. E. M. Forster's 1914 novel--a homosexual wish-fulfillment fantasy written before the author had lost his virginity--is markedly inferior to his other fiction, hence more likely to survive filmization; besides, the subject is clearly congenial to our film-makers. This is the semiautobiographical tale of Maurice, sent down from Cambridge because of a platonic but ...

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