<i>Howards End</i> Is a Lavish Portrait of Cultural Division
The new Starz miniseries is a masterly adaptation of E.M. Forster’s novel that affirms its relevance.
The 1992 film adaptation of E.M. Forster’s novel is still so sumptuous, so thrilling in its excavation of buried Edwardian desire, that you might question whether a new version is necessary. Yet Kenneth Lonergan’s four-part miniseries, which arrives Sunday on Starz, is its own masterpiece, visually lavish and narratively restrained. Lonergan and the director Hettie Macdonald find something profound in the story’s clash of cultures between the liberal, bourgeois Schlegels and the emotionally repressed, establishment Wilcoxes that feels vital in this
