Daily Dialogue — February 16, 2017

“I have a theory that there is something in the Italian landscape which inclines even the most stolid nature to romance.”

— A Room With a View (1985), screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, novel by E.M. Forster

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Period Piece, suggested by @etom212.

Trivia: The film cast includes three Oscar winners: Maggie Smith, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench; and three Oscar nominees: Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott and Richard Robbins.

Dialogue On Dialogue: “Manners movies” are a particular type of period piece and in these films one has to pay special attention to the precise dialogue, befitting the sense of social propriety.