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United Kingdom · 1979
Rated PG · 1h 30m
Director James Ivory
Starring Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy, Tim Choate
Genre Drama, Romance
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The year is 1850, and the Wentworths are one of the most prosperous families in New England. The puritanical household, led by the dour Mr. Wentworth, is disrupted by the arrival of siblings Eugenia and Felix, distant cousins from Europe. The siblings' bohemian lifestyle sends ripples through the family almost immediately.
The Europeans expects you to meet it halfway. When you do, you’re rewarded with a story that’s rich with complicated emotions, despite its self-confident exterior. It’s like its characters in that way, and also in the way, it thinks highly of itself and presents itself accordingly. Modesty never did a movie good.
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
What’s attractive about revisiting The Europeans now is how it’s more indie-flavored, its pleasurable finery and delicate ironies — even the filmic stiltedness — befitting a novel whose lightness of tone James himself recognized when he subtitled it “A Sketch.”
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
The elegantly composed visuals, the stately progression of the scenes, the deliberate understatement of the dialogue, are all as "faithful" to James as a film can be. But that's exactly the film's problem: Ivory hasn't found a way to make his own film, and has ended up with a classroom version of James, a film with no juice or life of its own.
The New York Times by Vincent Canby
The Europeans isn't simply pretty, it's so relentlessly pretty it becomes almost boring to watch.
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