Room with a View, A

Date: 1985
Director: James Ivory
Production Company: Goldcrest

Stars: Helena Bonham-Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Denholm Elliot, Simon Callow, Daniel Day-Lewis, Rupert Graves
Location(s): Firenze and Fiesole, Italy. East Sussex, London, Chiddingstone & Ide Hill & Brasted Chart, Kent.

Region(s): , ,

Storyline:

Chaperoned girl meets young man in Florence which begins to upset her engagement plans back home in England. SJ

Additional Information:

Buy this film on Amazon link

As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Can you help:

If you have any information regarding this production, the locations or, even better, some comparison shots please contact us. Images submitted must be in Landscape orientation, as would be seen on the cinema screen, not Portrait.

We are aware that there are films on the site that were added when the criteria for the inclusion of locations was very different from today and, as a result, there may be scenes missing from some productions. Please do not forward additional screen captures to us but bring the detail to our attention, for we do, and are, 're-addressing' these older entries as time allows.

  • Capture 1
  • 08 Oct 2013

Not much of a view. From (the) room 22 at the (then) Quisisana e Ponte Vecchio, now the Hotel degli Orafi, Lungarno degli Archibusieri 4, Florence, with thanks for information from Tony Reeves.

Sent in by the quasi-anonymous ER who managed to make it to the front door but was denied entry to the already occupied room. So here is the entrance to for at least a good try.

  • Capture 2
  • 'Now' required

The improved view. Room 414 can now be booked. Bet it'll cost.

  • Capture 3
  • 08 Oct 2013

Dench and Smith

Nailed by ER.

  • Capture 4
  • 'Now' required

A double dose of dames: Dench and Smith.

  • Capture 5
  • 08 Oct 2013

The Piazza Santissima Annunziata di Firenze

Good match. ER

  • Capture 6
  • 08 Oct 2013

Bonham-Carter at Church of San Croce

Confirmed by ER

  • Capture 7
  • 08 Oct 2013

The interior.

ER again.

  • Capture 8
  • 08 Oct 2013

Dante's monument.

And again. ER

  • Capture 9
  • 'Now' required

Smith and Dench slightly lost down an alleyway

  • Capture 10
  • 'Now' required

Baedecker to the rescue.

  • Capture 11
  • 08 Oct 2013

The south-easternmost corner of the Piazza della Signoria

Today. ER

  • Capture 12
  • 08 Oct 2013

Sands with Bonham-Carter in his arms.

Same corner. ER

  • Capture 13
  • 'Now' required

Bonham-Carter recovers from witnessing the knife attack.

  • Capture 14
  • 'Now' required

Think I may have grabbed this in error but it's quite a nice shot. Between the Ponte San Niccolo and the Ponte alle Grazie.

  • Capture 15
  • 06 Sep 2014

Sands and Bonham-Carter looking over the Arno.

Confirmed as Piazzale degli Uffizi in Firenze. (PW)

  • Capture 16
  • 'Now' required

In the countryside of Tuscany for the picnic.

  • Capture 17
  • 'Now' required

Sands at the front of the "picnic" house in Tuscany.

  • Capture 18
  • 'Now' required

Foxwold House, Brasted Chart, Kent

  • Capture 19
  • 'Now' required

Emmetts Garden, Ide Hill, Kent with thanks to Tony Reeves for the last two identifications.

  • Capture 20
  • 03 Nov 2012

St Mary's Church, Chiddingstone, West Kent

Now. SJ

  • Capture 21
  • 03 Nov 2012

Callow at St Mary's porch, Chiddingstone

No change. SJ

  • Capture 22
  • 03 Nov 2012

Looking north up Chiddingstone.

Church to left, pub and store to right. SJ

  • Capture 23
  • 03 Nov 2012

Bonham-Carter and Day-Lewis.

The Castle Inn, Chiddingstone. SJ

  • Capture 24
  • 03 Nov 2012

A close-up in Chiddingstone.

Just up from the Castle Inn. SJ

  • Capture 25
  • 03 Nov 2012

Bonahm-Carter, Day-Lewis and Callow

The store and pub opposite St Mary's church. SJ

  • Capture 26
  • 03 Nov 2012

Further up the road.

Fence replaced by edge. SJ

  • Capture 27
  • 03 Nov 2012

18 Stafford Terrace, London W8, also seen in Maurice.

Now. SJ

  • Capture 28
  • 'Now' required

A closer shot of Foxwold.

  • Capture 29
  • 'Now' required

The water hole, where Graves, Callow and Sands frolic, dug especially in the garden of Foxwold.

  • Capture 30
  • 30 Mar 2013

A station, possibly on the Bluebell line.

Confirmed as Horsted Keynes on the Bluebell Railway by James Holmes who provided this picture.

  • Capture 31
  • 03 Nov 2012

Sands and Elliott's house, Chiddingstone Village Hall.

Now. SJ

  • Capture 32
  • 14 Jul 2026

Back in London. Passing the doorway of 21 to 30 Albert Mansions, Kensington Gore SW7. (SR)

Tucked away in the dead end section of Kensington Gore. SJ

  • Capture 33
  • 03 Nov 2012

Back to Chiddingstone.

Now. SJ

  • Capture 34
  • 03 Nov 2012

A close-up in Chiddingstone.

The local store, seen earlier. SJ