Howards End review: A wholly satisfying adaptation
HOWARDS END (BBC1, Sunday) ended with little fanfare but was a wholly satisfying adaptation.
Howards End ended with little fanfare but was a wholly satisfying adaptation
As it was impossible to forget the grim “bookcase scene” from the 1990s film version, I waited patiently for poor Mr Bast to be felled by a wealth of Edwardian literature.
Crushed by old media, eh?
It wouldn’t happen now. I see very few reports of fatal injuries from unsuitably secured eReaders. It sounds obvious but in the end Schlegel and Wilcox were a very unsuitable pairing.
Jane Austen would never have put them together; she with her liberal, airy-fairy, notions and he with his brutish love of business and hypocrisy.
Matthew Macfayden’s acting however gave Wilcox a complex emotional side that we never saw in the film from Sir Anthony Hopkins.
And what a poignant ending, with those very faint thunder claps sounding in the distance.