To watch the most famous film version of EM Forster’s Howards End now is to watch the 1910 novel overlaid with another layer of history. Howards End on TV: life would be worse for a modern-day Leonard Bast Read moreC’est magnifique – mais est it really capturing le pre-war? Sunday night’s opening episode of the keenly awaited BBC adaptation of Howards End (four parts, broadcast the old-fashioned way, one a week) was a more sober affair. – and pulls poor Leonard Bast (played by Joseph Quinn more as a simpleton, so far, than a member of the lower middle class) into the chain of events by running off with his umbrella. Howards End, in whatever form you read or watch it, is an examination of how the rich get the gravy and the poor get the blame.

Source: The Guardian November 12, 2017 21:56 UTC