CIFF 2024: Howards End + Q&A
Chiswick in Film Festival returns for it’s third edition, championing the cinematic connections of our West London community.
Academy Award winner and legendary director-producer James Ivory joins us in person at the cinema for a pre-film Q&A with Bridget Osborne.
CIFF celebrates films shot in Chiswick or made by Chiswick residents. Presented in partnership with The Chiswick Calendar, the festival team are Bridget Osborne, Chris Parker, Andrea Carnevali and Rob Sprackling. Chiswick in Film Festival 2024 is kindly sponsored by The London Bath Co. who offer superior service from design to installation. The festival season artwork is designed by Aguado Polo Design.
About the film:
Nominated for nine Academy Awards, this landmark adaptation of EM Forster’s classic novel is about the interwoven fates and misfortunes of three families in Edwardian England. Full of lavish sets and elegant costumes, the film tells the stories of two respectable sisters, Margaret (Thompson) and Helen Schlegel (Bonham Carter), who collide with the world of the very wealthy – one sister benefiting from the acquaintance with the Wilcoxes (owners of the beloved country home Howards End), the other all but destroyed by it.
Compelling and brilliantly acted, the film remains an entertaining, exquisite and elegant pleasure, as moving and relevant as it was on the day of its original release.
Academy Award winner and legendary director-producer James Ivory joins us in person at the cinema for a pre-film Q&A with Bridget Osborne.
CIFF celebrates films shot in Chiswick or made by Chiswick residents. Presented in partnership with The Chiswick Calendar, the festival team are Bridget Osborne, Chris Parker, Andrea Carnevali and Rob Sprackling. Chiswick in Film Festival 2024 is kindly sponsored by The London Bath Co. who offer superior service from design to installation. The festival season artwork is designed by Aguado Polo Design.
About the film:
Nominated for nine Academy Awards, this landmark adaptation of EM Forster’s classic novel is about the interwoven fates and misfortunes of three families in Edwardian England. Full of lavish sets and elegant costumes, the film tells the stories of two respectable sisters, Margaret (Thompson) and Helen Schlegel (Bonham Carter), who collide with the world of the very wealthy – one sister benefiting from the acquaintance with the Wilcoxes (owners of the beloved country home Howards End), the other all but destroyed by it.
Compelling and brilliantly acted, the film remains an entertaining, exquisite and elegant pleasure, as moving and relevant as it was on the day of its original release.
Cast
Emma Thompson • Anthony Hopkins • Vanessa Redgrave • Jemma Redgrave • Helena Bonham Carter
Director
James Ivory
Running Time
142 minutes