Maurice 1987 James Wilby Hugh Grant Merchant Ivory Italian locandina

Description

Poster is 20”x15” and weighs 3.2 lbs
Italian release MAURICE movie poster was purchased and framed by L’Affichiste in Montreal in the early 1990’s.
Poster was vacuum mounted to a custom sized board with beveled edges that were then painted.
An acrylic protective finish is applied on the surface to help protect the poster.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maurice
is a 1987 British romantic drama film directed by James Ivory, based on the novel
Maurice
by E. M. Forster. The film stars James Wilby as Maurice, Hugh Grant as Clive and Rupert Graves as Alec. The supporting cast includes Denholm Elliott as Dr Barry, Simon Callow as Mr Ducie, Billie Whitelaw as Mrs Hall, and Ben Kingsley as Lasker-Jones.
The film was produced by Ismail Merchant via Merchant Ivory Productions and Film Four International, and written by Ivory and Kit Hesketh-Harvey, with cinematography by Pierre Lhomme. It is a tale of gay love in the restrictive and repressed culture of Edwardian England. The story follows its main character, Maurice Hall, through university, a tumultuous relationship, struggling to fit into society, and ultimately being united with his life partner.
The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in 1987, where Ivory was awarded a Silver Lion as Best Director, sharing the prize with Ermanno Olmi.
James Wilby and Hugh Grant were jointly awarded Best Actor, and Richard Robbins received the prize for his music.
The film received favourable reviews when it opened in New York City.
Maurice
received an Academy Award nomination in the Best Costume Design category.
Maurice
has won abundant praise in the 30 years since its initial release, both for the quality of the film and the audacity with which it depicted a gay love story at the height of the 1980s AIDS crisis. According to the
Los Angeles Times
, the fact that:
"the lush, dignified 'Maurice,' with its share of man-on-man smooches, full-frontal male nudity, gay lovemaking and unabashed declarations of same-sex desire, as well as a main character who was ultimately affirmative and unwavering about his homosexuality (during a time when it was a criminal offense, no less), landed a unique place in then-contemporary gay culture. That a movie which celebrated romance between men – with a rare happy ending – was released at the height of the AIDS epidemic only added to the acclaimed picture’s provocative profile."
The New Yorker
, in a retrospective on the film in 2017, stated, "...For many gay men coming of age in the eighties and nineties, 'Maurice' was revelatory: a first glimpse, onscreen or anywhere, of what love between men could look like".
Director James Ivory said, "So many people have come up to me since 'Maurice' and pulled me aside and said, 'I just want you to know you changed my life.'"
The Guardian
, describing
Maurice
as "undervalued in 1987 and underseen in 2017", lamented the relatively poor reception of the film compared to its lauded predecessor
A Room with a View
, saying it was "...filed away as, if not a disappointment, a lesser diversion" because it was "put bluntly, too gay".
LA Weekly
likewise called
Maurice
"the Merchant-Ivory film the World Missed", stating that: "it seems like it’s only recently been celebrated for how groundbreaking it was, and for its importance in the development of gay cinema."
In May 2017, a 4K restoration of
Maurice
was given a limited release in the United States to celebrate the film's 30th anniversary.
In March 2018, the restored version was screened in London as part of the BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival, with introductions by James Wilby and Hugh Grant.