I was yours till death, if you'd care to keep me once, but I'm someone else's now and he is mine in a way that shocks you, why don't you stop being shock? and attend to your own happiness...
The ending always gives me chills. I was happy that Maurice moved on and found someone to love outside of Clive. It's just sad that Clive couldn't free himself too. He kissed his youth goodbye and any chance at happiness.
I was very concerned that Maurice was going to walk into the boathouse to find Alec hanging from the rafters or something of that kind... familiarity with British literature makes me wary of any happy endings from the lot. Ah, so happy to feel a little joyful at the end of something, Clive and his symbolic windows nonwithstanding.
Thank you so VERY much for putting this on youtube. This is is such a beautiful movie with great actors! I love Rupert Grave and his Alec. Rupert is hot...now more then ever. :-)
Although I'm happy for Maurice and Alec, deep inside my heart I wish Clive could realize that his life is lie and come back to Maurice and they could run to France or other country and live their lives together happily.
A friend mentioned to me that it all comes back to Maurice's question to Alec after their first night together...about wanting to be with someone forever. That Alec recalls the question in an epiphany and decides not to emigrate and to stay with Maurice...Alec realizes he does want the same thing, and they live happily ever after.
@skyblazer7 What your friend says is so very true. The movie, by the way, is garnering a whole new generation of devotees worldwide .... like the book, it is ahead of its time.
Wonderful movies. Great work of all this movies crew and thanks their hard work to occur this kind of gold movie. Especially, actors. Rupert Grave made this film more deeper by his talent and attractive good look of his youth at that time. Thanks to YouTube and the one who sharing this work of art. I love so much this film.
I recently came out and, although I'm a girl, instantly returned to this movie. it's beautifully shot, acted, and conceived, and gives me such incredible hope.
The final scene in the boathouse always takes my breath away. It is so beautifully romantic! Such a passionate kiss! To be honest, I wish they had ended the movie right there. This is Maurice's story, not Clive's! :-)
Thank you sincerely for posting this. can't believe utube left it complete. I am grateful to Mr. Forster for the courage to write this, to those who had the courage to publish and to those that made this film so beautiful and dignified. Love against all odds.
@globalman E.M. Forster did not publish the novel during his lifetime. It was not published until 1971, one year after his death. Sex between two men was decriminalized in England and Wales only in 1967; in Germany, in 1968; in France, in 1981 (the Vichy criminalization had been continued by the Gaullist regime); in the United States, in 2003, the Supreme Court finally found the laws ciminalizing homosexual sex between consenting adults in 13 states which still had them unconstitutional.
@NosHabebitHumus Thank you for the statistics. I had forgotten some of those dates. A bit frightening to see that the nation supposedly leading the free world as well as one who's doctrines declare freedom and justice for all was/is the most backward in human rights for its own citizens.
"now we shan't never be parted. it's finished." Those words can make me cry almost right away! I love brokeback mountain because it's clearly better than any other gay movies (such as eating out or edge of seventeen) but it can't win Maurice. Brokeback and Maurice still have something in commone - they're both LOVE STORIES not gay movies.
The boathouse scene at the end is one of the most romantic scenes in any movie, ever. And that kiss! In an interview with the actors on the DVD, both James Wilby and Rupert Graves discuss how they'd only known each other for a few days before filming that scene. They went out to dinner to discuss 'strategy', and both decided just to go for it. I'm so glad they did! It's so true and real, and gives me hope for the future. "Now we shan't never be parted", so powerful and perfect.
@Harlequinader I luv it cuz it means pure love regardless of sexuality...besides,even if you use it as an excuse to stop the relationship from going further..it doesn't always mean you are coward..it could simply mean that you genuinely believe that sexuality should be limited to its heterosexual form and that homosexuality isn't the way of life you want for yourself
It may be like you say yet it is pretty difficult to feel platonic love towards someone and expect your significant other to return it. I mean, it's already difficult to love someone and be loved back -platonic love can be but more like an utopia of Love. Also, some people just feel attracted to the same gender and they feel unable to get involved in a heterosexual relationship, like you say. No one likes to be alone -platonic or whatsoever.
What an absolutely gorgeous film. I'm so, so, so happy Maurice was able to fall in love. Alec truly is gorgeous and is so loyal to him in which Clive was not.
Deserves to be #1 as greatest gay movie... and just to add; i'd love a scudder in my bed. accent, body, personality. IT ALL.
@greigeh I like how the cricket scene showed the rapport between Alec and Maurice, how they could depend on each other. As soon as Clive came in, he made it clear that Maurice could not depend on him, when he forced the game and Maurice was ou.
Love this film. Very romantic, and how brave of Forster to write this love story during the turn of the 20th century.
Respond to this video... I like how the cricket scene showed the rapport between Alec and Maurice, how they could depend on each other. As soon as Clive came in, he made it clear that Maurice could not depend on him, when he forced the game and Maurice was out.
Love this film. Very romantic, and how brave of Forster to write this love story during the turn of the 20th century.
What is so sad is there are still Men who stay with women very unhappy, because that is the way they know it to be. they go there whole lives in a lie. how sad!
You're right to doubt. I found "Brokeback Mountain" depressing, and lacking compassion for gay people. It was written by Annie Proulx, who wanted her characters for only the use of the story and nothing beyond. When E. M. Forster wrote this he admitted it was unlikely. He was gay himself and lived in the time this book is set. He wanted Maurice to have what he could not. Forster writes "To a happier year." on the title page. By doing so he gives hope to his readers. Hope is as great as love.
@chopin65 Yep, EM Forster wrote what is essentially the first gay fairytale IMHO...a story to boost the hope and self-worth of a repressed minority that was bereft on both at the time he wrote it (and in some ways and in some places, still short on today).
@chopin65 I'm not so sure about that, given that forster said alec and maurice lived happily in a forever that only fiction allowed. when I think of "writing what I wish had happened to me," I think of badly written young adult fiction (mostly twilight), not maurice. and it's been a while since I read brokeback mountain, but I (as someone who isn't straight) didn't feel as though proulx was using her characters as mere plot devices. they're two incomparable stories. not that maurice can't bring
@chopin65 hope (and I do prefer it over brokeback mountain), but I see so many layers that reducing it to one seems foolish. and well, I also cried when I finished reading it and find it disconcerting that some describe the ending as happy, period. I mean, it was in a way, but it was also unbelievably heartbreaking. (and I did find maurice a bit insufferable throughout the first half of the book and always sympathized with clive... ok, I'll shut up now. I just have all these feelings for clive.)
God, after so many years, im still mad at clive! He broke my heart for breaking maurice's heart. It was even him who encouraged maurice! But in the end, he became the coward one. But thanks to him maurice became better.
creo que no hay película que me haya marcado tanto, cada escena es para mí memorable, creo que he construido mi vida en torno a estas voces y estas manos,
@chopin65 Yes, it is a novel. It is informed, however, by Forster's personal knowledge of the relationship of Carpenter and Merrill. By all means, google the life of Edward Carpenter and his relationship to Forster. Or the novel "Maurice".
Wicked soooo glad murice got together with alex who loved him. The shock on colin face when he said he loved alex lol. Well colin realise when he shut the windows that he made a misake that will cost him the rest of this life, also maurice wont be their for him. he won't be able to be himself. maurice would have done anything for him.... Happy for maurice and alex, lovely story that was a true one lol.
Damn. I love this scene, but that kiss looks less like a kiss and more like they're going on a scavenger hunt in each other's mouths. C'mon, where's the finesse?
@PABWECG He recognised his weakness. I sometimes think people settle for a life not suited for them because they will never really get what they wanted.
Clive been living in a lie by adding the stright clive,deep inside he know that's true & by the look 6:00 of his wife i think that his wife know it 2....i love the ending 4 maurice & alec be 2gether.....
I can't decide if this is beautiful love story, a tragedy about the false loves homosexuals of that era were forced to lead, a social commentary, or some combination of the three. Either way, brilliant.
@shinshin1000 ¨Lady Chatterley´s Lover,¨ based on the novel - by the same title - by D.H. Lawrence. It is ¨like this one,¨in that it is a period film as well, and the theme of love amidst cross-class solidarity is recurrent. And Lawrence was both a contemporary of, and fellow Bloomsbury protege, as was Forster... Lest you are referring to other films with the same kind of love orientation as ¨what matters,¨ then you might not find this particular film as enjoyable as Maurice.
@shinshin1000 I don't know of any films like this but you might enjoy the film Pink Narcissus where the young gay man's coming of age as a sexual being is celebrated. It's a beautiful film story-wise an mostly, aesthetically. It's by James Bidgood.
I am astounded by this film every year something pops up and surprises me. I will get the DVD and invite a few friends over a few beverages and watch.
Thank you so much for posting!!! I remember when I first heard of the book and I was floored that they actually did a film adaptation. Definitely one of my fav.
Thank you for putting this movie on youtube! It's such a wonderful story and film, and it has significance for all relationships, gay or straight. It's all about following your heart and being who you truly are, even when you're afraid of what society might do to you, or what your family will think. Maurice has the courage to be himself and becomes willing to be true to his heart, even if it means he might suffer one day. We hope he doesn't, I want that happy life for him and Alec.
@Arielrosemusic I would say that's too simplistic an interpretation for it. as forster himself said, the happy for ever we might imagine for alec and maurice is permitted by fiction, and in that sense is not meant to be mirrored in reality.
perhaps it's my inclination to absorb stories wholly as opposed to trying to get away from them with some sort of moral lesson, but I believe there is too much explored in this story to try to narrow it down.
@Arielrosemusic Amen. At least in this film the lead gay character gets to have a happy ending:-) I think this is why the story is so successful. E M Foster made the right decision.
this movie is just beautiful! And the music! I love the music in the last scenes with Maurice from the point when he goes looking for Scudder... beautiful!
The movie reminds me in some ways of something Jane Austin could have written...So romantic and yet tragic...
I can se in the comments that i´m not the only one totally in love with this movie :)
@mark121959 You are right, the real tragedy is Clive, and his wife-trapped to live a lie. The yearning on his face when he looks out the window at the end was heartbreaking. Thier class however has a different attitude to Marraige duty and Love. I read the book Portrait of a Marraige Vita Sackville West and her husband Harold Nicholson which showed a very different kind of love. Basically anything was ok as long as no one talked about it.
The attraction between two men can be a noble and beautiful thing; the descent into physicality between same remains abhorrent to the majority. 'twas ever thus and likely so to remain. However given the choice between the dull ugly woman and Maurice...mmmmmm...difficult that one...!!!
Clive probably ended up killing himself. Why does an ex lover want us when we're with someone else? And why is it that they are willing to abandon us when we are alone? Is it because secretly they believe we'll always be there waiting for them? Or is it simply because someone else wants us?
I've seen this before, and never really paid much attention. Not much for period pieces, but GAWD, you could just fall into Alec's eyes. "Now we shan't ever be apart. It's finish." I was laughing and crying at the same time.
@herrrob14 I know. I love that line and I am going to find a way to slip it into conversation. Mayhaps when one of my friends finally comes out. Of course has to be done with a cigarette in one hand and a beer in the other. :)
Ok, what I should say... it's happy ending story but I got tears on my eyes.
This movie is really amazing, I think I wouldn't be able to forget this one.
I'm really glad that Maurice could get someone better than Cilve. Poor Clive, that man should be regret his decision in past (well I'm not sure, but he has wonderful memories with Maurice). And Scudder, he's so lovely , honest, and innocent man, I feel like I want to kiss him in this movie~
Those lines,"He didn't, he sacrificed his career for my sake, and without a guarantee.I don't know whether that's platonic of him but it's what he did" I find
I think Clive had tortured Maurice by making him to stay with Clive and his wife. And at the end, Clive pays for what he did to Maurice by broken and hollow heart of himself. But Clive cannot be an Homme Fatale in this story... He is just an average man who wanted to avoid homosexual love which was banned in that society...
@destinifly Notice Clive told him that he was welcomed to Penge and could come and go whenever he pleased ("treat it like a hotel"). I'm sure Clive extended the invitation like that because he still wanted Maurice to always be a presence.
Well I do love a happy ending! So glad Maurice met Alec and finally found happiness. But poor Clive, confined to his own self-made purgatory - unfortunately his ending most likely wasn't uncommon in his time(and for some even today), its sad, very sad. Very beautiful story, and the novel was, though with some faults, a very humbling read.
The ending made me cry. I wish they would have ended up together. Though I probably wouldn't have liked the movie that much then. I don't like happy endings, but when there is no happy ending, I wish for one. I'm weird.
It did have a happy ending. Maurice and Scudder ended up together. They are based on the real-life Edward Carpenter (Maurice) and George Merrill (Scudder). They moved to Sheffield and lived together 30 years. Carpenter died in 1929 and Merrill in 1928. They are buried together.
I remember first seeing this when it opened in London. No one knew I was gay then and the movie had a profound affect on me. I came out directly after. Over twenty years later, I watched this film here and it still resonates just as strongly. A stunningly rich and beautiful piece. About as perfect a film as there's ever been.
One of if not the best gay film ever made... I remember watching it at home for the first time... my father was still alive... and he was at the tv set room with me. He didn't say anything but I was still a child and went to be and cried for a while. I had been really happy and felt identified with the men in the film... Deliciously awesome.
@gottalovethatcookie I just don't get why people keep hyping Latter Days, the acting of the two leads is excruciatingly bad! I guess, with so few good options, drivel like that is over-appreciated!
@plutogirllovekj I thought they were pretty good actors! not in the begining, the beging not so much, but the rest of it was really good! it always makes me wanna cry :'] but in a good way. and dislike a movie JUST because of the acting, you have to look at the whole movie and its message
This movie was so pivotal in helping me come out. Maurice took the harder path, one that required him to be honest about who he was. In the end it brought him the joy, love and acceptance he was denied for so long. This movie is de riguer for any troubled kids grappling with this sexual orientation.
Luiz, espero que não seja tão difícil para nós como foi para eles.
cinefilo1964 1 week ago
Please never, never ever make a remake of this film please!!! NEVER!
fredocato 1 week ago
I was yours till death, if you'd care to keep me once, but I'm someone else's now and he is mine in a way that shocks you, why don't you stop being shock? and attend to your own happiness...
fredocato 1 week ago
I cry every time.
gregorio73 1 week ago
The ending always gives me chills. I was happy that Maurice moved on and found someone to love outside of Clive. It's just sad that Clive couldn't free himself too. He kissed his youth goodbye and any chance at happiness.
saiuron35 1 week ago
Thank you so much for sharing this film.
terradusa4219 1 week ago
I was very concerned that Maurice was going to walk into the boathouse to find Alec hanging from the rafters or something of that kind... familiarity with British literature makes me wary of any happy endings from the lot. Ah, so happy to feel a little joyful at the end of something, Clive and his symbolic windows nonwithstanding.
HappyBookwormGirl 2 weeks ago
I could not stop crying...Clive was brilliant at the end...and Maurice was so graceful
MrMaheswarsatpathy 4 weeks ago
First time I've watched this movie, and I love it! So glad it had a happy ending for Alec and Maurice....I actually got a teary at their last scene.
EoinMLover 1 month ago
Clive's wife as a middle-aged writer, in WW2 .... Foyle's war, The Funk Hole, video 8 (on utube)
mabhekaphansi 1 month ago
I have seen this film so many times and read the book over and over but the ending still gets me every single time. Good luck, boys.
complicatedmoonlight 1 month ago
This is by far the best gay movie in that it actually ends in a happy ending, without any deaths. I mean, why do they always make them end so badly?
LueEvangeline 2 months ago 2
What a beautiful ending. What a bitter sweet movie.
LongDistanceCall11 2 months ago
Thank you so VERY much for putting this on youtube. This is is such a beautiful movie with great actors! I love Rupert Grave and his Alec. Rupert is hot...now more then ever. :-)
stughlover 2 months ago 3
Although I'm happy for Maurice and Alec, deep inside my heart I wish Clive could realize that his life is lie and come back to Maurice and they could run to France or other country and live their lives together happily.
FernandoLety 2 months ago 14
A friend mentioned to me that it all comes back to Maurice's question to Alec after their first night together...about wanting to be with someone forever. That Alec recalls the question in an epiphany and decides not to emigrate and to stay with Maurice...Alec realizes he does want the same thing, and they live happily ever after.
skyblazer7 2 months ago
@skyblazer7 What your friend says is so very true. The movie, by the way, is garnering a whole new generation of devotees worldwide .... like the book, it is ahead of its time.
mabhekaphansi 2 months ago
Hell Yes for happy endings!!!!!! <3
I hate it that so many movies like the dramatic ending of everyone being unhappy/dead. Sheesh
ycrmn 3 months ago
all that said, oh god, the music during the last scene is absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking.
floatinroundmytincan 3 months ago 3
so fucking bittersweet...
floatinroundmytincan 3 months ago
happy pretend-straight life Claive :P
HalfofMyInnerme 3 months ago 8
Wonderful movies. Great work of all this movies crew and thanks their hard work to occur this kind of gold movie. Especially, actors. Rupert Grave made this film more deeper by his talent and attractive good look of his youth at that time. Thanks to YouTube and the one who sharing this work of art. I love so much this film.
perfectawngdang 3 months ago
I recently came out and, although I'm a girl, instantly returned to this movie. it's beautifully shot, acted, and conceived, and gives me such incredible hope.
lolita24601 3 months ago 3
This is by far the most romantic movie I have ever seen. Absolutly amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!
eddiekendricksgirl 3 months ago
The final scene in the boathouse always takes my breath away. It is so beautifully romantic! Such a passionate kiss! To be honest, I wish they had ended the movie right there. This is Maurice's story, not Clive's! :-)
jimsed1964 3 months ago 3
Thank you sincerely for posting this. can't believe utube left it complete. I am grateful to Mr. Forster for the courage to write this, to those who had the courage to publish and to those that made this film so beautiful and dignified. Love against all odds.
globalman 3 months ago
@globalman E.M. Forster did not publish the novel during his lifetime. It was not published until 1971, one year after his death. Sex between two men was decriminalized in England and Wales only in 1967; in Germany, in 1968; in France, in 1981 (the Vichy criminalization had been continued by the Gaullist regime); in the United States, in 2003, the Supreme Court finally found the laws ciminalizing homosexual sex between consenting adults in 13 states which still had them unconstitutional.
NosHabebitHumus 3 months ago
@NosHabebitHumus Thank you for the statistics. I had forgotten some of those dates. A bit frightening to see that the nation supposedly leading the free world as well as one who's doctrines declare freedom and justice for all was/is the most backward in human rights for its own citizens.
globalman 3 months ago
"now we shan't never be parted. it's finished." Those words can make me cry almost right away! I love brokeback mountain because it's clearly better than any other gay movies (such as eating out or edge of seventeen) but it can't win Maurice. Brokeback and Maurice still have something in commone - they're both LOVE STORIES not gay movies.
7832195 3 months ago 4
I loved brokeback mountain, it was best among the other gay movies... but this it's nothing against Maurice! :(
7832195 3 months ago
God I hate every god damn gay movie with unhappy ending, but this movie make my heart drop to my stomach.
ooyohm20 4 months ago
Even though he's a git, I feel really sorry for Clive.
MultiMelpomene 4 months ago 7
The boathouse scene at the end is one of the most romantic scenes in any movie, ever. And that kiss! In an interview with the actors on the DVD, both James Wilby and Rupert Graves discuss how they'd only known each other for a few days before filming that scene. They went out to dinner to discuss 'strategy', and both decided just to go for it. I'm so glad they did! It's so true and real, and gives me hope for the future. "Now we shan't never be parted", so powerful and perfect.
Katrinawitch 4 months ago 2
I've just waisted two hours of my life watching this film.
zazagabora2 4 months ago
A good ending. Charm doesn't die with it.
ddxudd 6 months ago
I like the idea of purely platonic love
otrdhi8 6 months ago
@otrdhi8 If you don't wear it as an excuse to shrug off cowardice then it'd be fine
Harlequinader 5 months ago
@Harlequinader I luv it cuz it means pure love regardless of sexuality...besides,even if you use it as an excuse to stop the relationship from going further..it doesn't always mean you are coward..it could simply mean that you genuinely believe that sexuality should be limited to its heterosexual form and that homosexuality isn't the way of life you want for yourself
not debating just talking :)
otrdhi8 5 months ago
@otrdhi8 It's okay. I'm fine with talking ^^
It may be like you say yet it is pretty difficult to feel platonic love towards someone and expect your significant other to return it. I mean, it's already difficult to love someone and be loved back -platonic love can be but more like an utopia of Love. Also, some people just feel attracted to the same gender and they feel unable to get involved in a heterosexual relationship, like you say. No one likes to be alone -platonic or whatsoever.
Harlequinader 5 months ago
omg brb crying :'(
robyncy 6 months ago
and I love the ending, and Durham's last bit of hesitation, as he ponders if he, and/or Maurice has made the right decision.
Hammerton32 7 months ago 2
What an absolutely gorgeous film. I'm so, so, so happy Maurice was able to fall in love. Alec truly is gorgeous and is so loyal to him in which Clive was not.
Deserves to be #1 as greatest gay movie... and just to add; i'd love a scudder in my bed. accent, body, personality. IT ALL.
greigeh 7 months ago in playlist Maurice 1987 4
@greigeh I like how the cricket scene showed the rapport between Alec and Maurice, how they could depend on each other. As soon as Clive came in, he made it clear that Maurice could not depend on him, when he forced the game and Maurice was ou.
Love this film. Very romantic, and how brave of Forster to write this love story during the turn of the 20th century.
Hammerton32 7 months ago 4
Respond to this video... I like how the cricket scene showed the rapport between Alec and Maurice, how they could depend on each other. As soon as Clive came in, he made it clear that Maurice could not depend on him, when he forced the game and Maurice was out.
Love this film. Very romantic, and how brave of Forster to write this love story during the turn of the 20th century.
Hammerton32 7 months ago 5
What is so sad is there are still Men who stay with women very unhappy, because that is the way they know it to be. they go there whole lives in a lie. how sad!
halliebell6 8 months ago 6
Ooft, I think I fancy Scudder.
Amaglev 8 months ago
do u reckon clive would think about all the great gay sex he coulda had?
that window bit was sad : (
TheVenerated 8 months ago 6
:( i rally wanted Clive and Maurice to end up together :(
ruli16 9 months ago 4
@ruli16 why clive is such an ass !
k3ngarbage 9 months ago
I don't know why is "Brokeback Mountain" rated as the best gay movie. According to me this is the best gay movie ever made with a happy ending.
solidarity2205 9 months ago 59
@solidarity2205 I agree with you! There should be more happy ending gay movies at 2011!!!!!
sbobba75 9 months ago
@sbobba75 - we're getting there.
jhr459 6 months ago
You're right to doubt. I found "Brokeback Mountain" depressing, and lacking compassion for gay people. It was written by Annie Proulx, who wanted her characters for only the use of the story and nothing beyond. When E. M. Forster wrote this he admitted it was unlikely. He was gay himself and lived in the time this book is set. He wanted Maurice to have what he could not. Forster writes "To a happier year." on the title page. By doing so he gives hope to his readers. Hope is as great as love.
chopin65 1 month ago 5
@chopin65 Yep, EM Forster wrote what is essentially the first gay fairytale IMHO...a story to boost the hope and self-worth of a repressed minority that was bereft on both at the time he wrote it (and in some ways and in some places, still short on today).
skyblazer7 1 month ago
@chopin65 I'm not so sure about that, given that forster said alec and maurice lived happily in a forever that only fiction allowed. when I think of "writing what I wish had happened to me," I think of badly written young adult fiction (mostly twilight), not maurice. and it's been a while since I read brokeback mountain, but I (as someone who isn't straight) didn't feel as though proulx was using her characters as mere plot devices. they're two incomparable stories. not that maurice can't bring
floatinroundmytincan 1 month ago
@chopin65 hope (and I do prefer it over brokeback mountain), but I see so many layers that reducing it to one seems foolish. and well, I also cried when I finished reading it and find it disconcerting that some describe the ending as happy, period. I mean, it was in a way, but it was also unbelievably heartbreaking. (and I did find maurice a bit insufferable throughout the first half of the book and always sympathized with clive... ok, I'll shut up now. I just have all these feelings for clive.)
floatinroundmytincan 1 month ago
God, after so many years, im still mad at clive! He broke my heart for breaking maurice's heart. It was even him who encouraged maurice! But in the end, he became the coward one. But thanks to him maurice became better.
vulaka 9 months ago 2
ah i am tired
wantedq81 10 months ago
Thanks so much for uploading all these!! =D It's a great film!
IscaRose 10 months ago
creo que no hay película que me haya marcado tanto, cada escena es para mí memorable, creo que he construido mi vida en torno a estas voces y estas manos,
cristoamante 11 months ago
this film reminded me so much of The Priest (1994), if u enjoyed this film, WATCH THE PRIEST<<
PiratesInFluffyHats 11 months ago
wonderful film, one of my favourites. full of so many basic truths about human nature and the choices we make.
pawdaw 11 months ago 2
Clive is SO gay. some serious denial there
TheProphetEliza 11 months ago
best... movie...evar!
xxtiaan 1 year ago
@mark121959 Where did you read this? I always though it was an original story by Forster.
chopin65 1 year ago
@chopin65 Yes, it is a novel. It is informed, however, by Forster's personal knowledge of the relationship of Carpenter and Merrill. By all means, google the life of Edward Carpenter and his relationship to Forster. Or the novel "Maurice".
amcoca 1 year ago
i m in luv wid murice hes so sweet
shebishobi 1 year ago
i pity clive... he will never be happy. I love alec...
khoykhoy 1 year ago
Wicked soooo glad murice got together with alex who loved him. The shock on colin face when he said he loved alex lol. Well colin realise when he shut the windows that he made a misake that will cost him the rest of this life, also maurice wont be their for him. he won't be able to be himself. maurice would have done anything for him.... Happy for maurice and alex, lovely story that was a true one lol.
Melons747 1 year ago
Damn. I love this scene, but that kiss looks less like a kiss and more like they're going on a scavenger hunt in each other's mouths. C'mon, where's the finesse?
amadear 1 year ago 3
Such a sad ending for Clive...he'll never really be happy, since he's always going to pretend to be someone other than himself.
PABWECG 1 year ago
@PABWECG Clive's living a lie.
denisethepainter 1 year ago
@denisethepainter I agree and it's sad to think that people in that era could not accept themselves for who they were...
Enryu 11 months ago
@PABWECG He recognised his weakness. I sometimes think people settle for a life not suited for them because they will never really get what they wanted.
chopin65 1 year ago
Clive been living in a lie by adding the stright clive,deep inside he know that's true & by the look 6:00 of his wife i think that his wife know it 2....i love the ending 4 maurice & alec be 2gether.....
88sexyback 1 year ago
I can't decide if this is beautiful love story, a tragedy about the false loves homosexuals of that era were forced to lead, a social commentary, or some combination of the three. Either way, brilliant.
maximusx3 1 year ago 6
The last scene should have been the once with Alec and Maurice ... perfect ending
igshaan20 1 year ago
Are there more movies like this one?
shinshin1000 1 year ago
@shinshin1000 ¨Lady Chatterley´s Lover,¨ based on the novel - by the same title - by D.H. Lawrence. It is ¨like this one,¨in that it is a period film as well, and the theme of love amidst cross-class solidarity is recurrent. And Lawrence was both a contemporary of, and fellow Bloomsbury protege, as was Forster... Lest you are referring to other films with the same kind of love orientation as ¨what matters,¨ then you might not find this particular film as enjoyable as Maurice.
Merseyrock 1 year ago
@shinshin1000 I don't know of any films like this but you might enjoy the film Pink Narcissus where the young gay man's coming of age as a sexual being is celebrated. It's a beautiful film story-wise an mostly, aesthetically. It's by James Bidgood.
denisethepainter 11 months ago
I am astounded by this film every year something pops up and surprises me. I will get the DVD and invite a few friends over a few beverages and watch.
sisterblique 1 year ago
poor Anne he'll never love her
crazylericaun 1 year ago
A very powerful ending! Love is a wonderful thing and it is worth fighting for at any price.
vrymascstud09 1 year ago
Thank you so much for posting!!! I remember when I first heard of the book and I was floored that they actually did a film adaptation. Definitely one of my fav.
kkmatt 1 year ago
I love this film so much. Alec is so gorgeous - the most romantic scenes ever between Alec and Maurice. I can't get enough of it.
kitty2katty 1 year ago 4
they are really good actors!
gustawsieustaw 1 year ago
Thank you for putting this movie on youtube! It's such a wonderful story and film, and it has significance for all relationships, gay or straight. It's all about following your heart and being who you truly are, even when you're afraid of what society might do to you, or what your family will think. Maurice has the courage to be himself and becomes willing to be true to his heart, even if it means he might suffer one day. We hope he doesn't, I want that happy life for him and Alec.
Arielrosemusic 1 year ago 53
@Arielrosemusic I would say that's too simplistic an interpretation for it. as forster himself said, the happy for ever we might imagine for alec and maurice is permitted by fiction, and in that sense is not meant to be mirrored in reality.
perhaps it's my inclination to absorb stories wholly as opposed to trying to get away from them with some sort of moral lesson, but I believe there is too much explored in this story to try to narrow it down.
floatinroundmytincan 3 months ago
@Arielrosemusic Amen. At least in this film the lead gay character gets to have a happy ending:-) I think this is why the story is so successful. E M Foster made the right decision.
jimsed1964 3 months ago
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I wish I had my own Alec Scudder
MyrePhoebusDK 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading this amazing movie :D
0605CoolDude 1 year ago
what a beautiful movie. I swore I wouldn't cry, but the last part with Clive looking out his window and seeing Maurice just killed me.
Mochii123 1 year ago 3
Thanks for postting it... greetings from Argentina! Cheers... ;)
jackrqta 1 year ago
@krane121
I don't think she looks like a man; I do think she looks a bit like Consuleo Vanderbilt.....which explains much about this story.
amcoca 1 year ago
this movie is just beautiful! And the music! I love the music in the last scenes with Maurice from the point when he goes looking for Scudder... beautiful!
The movie reminds me in some ways of something Jane Austin could have written...So romantic and yet tragic...
I can se in the comments that i´m not the only one totally in love with this movie :)
Thats nice!
buneojne 1 year ago 4
Poor Clive, he loves Maurice and he feels strongly for his wife. He is jealous of Alec Skudder and Maurice's romance.
MikeyDendang 1 year ago
does someone know the name of the music when Darren is going to bed just before the final credits? I love it!
will74lsn 1 year ago
@mark121959 You are right, the real tragedy is Clive, and his wife-trapped to live a lie. The yearning on his face when he looks out the window at the end was heartbreaking. Thier class however has a different attitude to Marraige duty and Love. I read the book Portrait of a Marraige Vita Sackville West and her husband Harold Nicholson which showed a very different kind of love. Basically anything was ok as long as no one talked about it.
oliviagiles 1 year ago 3
@oliviagiles
It is not ironic that the more things change the more they stay the same.
suavehinrg 1 year ago
Poor Clive. He intends to be disapproving. In fact he is jealous.
mark121959 1 year ago 5
Wow, Rupert Graves was rawr! when he was younger. And he has aged quite nicely, me thinks.
Emgee78 1 year ago 3
The attraction between two men can be a noble and beautiful thing; the descent into physicality between same remains abhorrent to the majority. 'twas ever thus and likely so to remain. However given the choice between the dull ugly woman and Maurice...mmmmmm...difficult that one...!!!
devonlongbow 1 year ago
also in town...lols
foaarr111 1 year ago
God they are so gorgeous...sigh...
oliviagiles 1 year ago
Maurice is the sweetest looking man I've ever seen.
notevenhere 1 year ago
Scudder's a vast improvement on Clive
missbabyice 1 year ago 7
Scudder is so brave, so pure, so passionate. Maurice's lucky to have him.
jeremyrain98 1 year ago 59
For thow who enjoyed this, I'd recommend Another Country.
missbabyice 1 year ago 4
@missbabyice Yeah, that is a great movie!
chopin65 1 year ago
Clive probably ended up killing himself. Why does an ex lover want us when we're with someone else? And why is it that they are willing to abandon us when we are alone? Is it because secretly they believe we'll always be there waiting for them? Or is it simply because someone else wants us?
LVishere 1 year ago
"also in town!" lol!
notevenhere 1 year ago
I've seen this before, and never really paid much attention. Not much for period pieces, but GAWD, you could just fall into Alec's eyes. "Now we shan't ever be apart. It's finish." I was laughing and crying at the same time.
frozenbaby2004 1 year ago 25
What a grotesque announcement! It's hard to pull that line off in the 21st Century, but I wish I could use it at least once a day!
herrrob14 1 year ago 2
@herrrob14 I know. I love that line and I am going to find a way to slip it into conversation. Mayhaps when one of my friends finally comes out. Of course has to be done with a cigarette in one hand and a beer in the other. :)
frozenbaby2004 1 year ago
Ok, what I should say... it's happy ending story but I got tears on my eyes.
This movie is really amazing, I think I wouldn't be able to forget this one.
I'm really glad that Maurice could get someone better than Cilve. Poor Clive, that man should be regret his decision in past (well I'm not sure, but he has wonderful memories with Maurice). And Scudder, he's so lovely , honest, and innocent man, I feel like I want to kiss him in this movie~
xxKarin4xx 1 year ago 3
OMG I never thought I'ld once love these types of movies, I mean ancient times and all ! This one left me mouth open wide ! SoOoOoO beautiful !
trace822 1 year ago 4
I love Scudder's accent :D
missbabyice 1 year ago 5
Those lines,"He didn't, he sacrificed his career for my sake, and without a guarantee.I don't know whether that's platonic of him but it's what he did" I find
both stunning and profound!
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blainebill39 1 year ago
I think Clive had tortured Maurice by making him to stay with Clive and his wife. And at the end, Clive pays for what he did to Maurice by broken and hollow heart of himself. But Clive cannot be an Homme Fatale in this story... He is just an average man who wanted to avoid homosexual love which was banned in that society...
Anyway, great movie! thanks for sharing!
destinifly 1 year ago 2
@destinifly Notice Clive told him that he was welcomed to Penge and could come and go whenever he pleased ("treat it like a hotel"). I'm sure Clive extended the invitation like that because he still wanted Maurice to always be a presence.
Emgee78 1 year ago 11
I'll never forget attending the San Francisco premier of "Maurice", also attended
by actor James Wilby, in 1987. If you are at all familiar with SF you may well
be able to imagine at least half the Castro flocking to the theater! Many of his
queer admirers were rather annoyed at what they perceived as Wilbys' disdain
for all the queer oggling! Looking back 23yrs later, I can't help feeling for poor
Wilby! Gays were starving for any shred of representation
blainebill39 1 year ago
@blainebill39 You make it sound like pre Stonewall. He was probably just worried about his career.
chopin65 1 year ago
@chopin65
Yes my friend, Wilby probably was concearned about being typecast.
As for sounding "pre Stonewall" , it may in part be that queer folks were
excited by storys depicting them in an historical context, sans the usual
blackmail, prostitution, public humiliation etc.
I hope you liked the film?
Blaine
blainebill39 1 year ago
@blainebill39 It's one of my favorites. It is very faithful to the novel.
chopin65 1 year ago
Though everyone that attended was impeccably dressed, I know that most of the
gay men would have loved nothing more then to have Wilby change out of his
beautifully tailored Saville Row suit, into some tight jeans and a white tanktop,
and place a small rainbow flag in his hand.Then, they would have liked to set
him on the back of a motorcycle and lead him through the next Pride March!
Wilby was and is so good at his craft, that he was able to suspend disbelief
completely!
blainebill39 1 year ago
Well I do love a happy ending! So glad Maurice met Alec and finally found happiness. But poor Clive, confined to his own self-made purgatory - unfortunately his ending most likely wasn't uncommon in his time(and for some even today), its sad, very sad. Very beautiful story, and the novel was, though with some faults, a very humbling read.
Thanks again for uploading! xx
xMikanNamix 1 year ago
I'd be willing to bet that Scudder doesn't smell as fresh as Maurice lol.
BreezesofConey 1 year ago
It has been over 23yrs since I first attended the San Francisco premier of this
film. Though I loved it at the time, I wasn't quit aware of just what a masterpiece
it was! It did inspire me to delve into Forsters' other great novels, "A Passage
To India, Howards' End" among them. The team of James Ivory and Ismael
Merchant was an extraordinary one! I believe Ismael Merchant passed in 05,
I'm sure he is much missed!
blainebill39 1 year ago
Clive is a broken man at the end, he's lost everything and he knows it. His face says it all. Hugh can act!
notevenhere 1 year ago 6
Beautiful movie and the end is a marvel...
vidhuankipanki 1 year ago
The ending made me cry. I wish they would have ended up together. Though I probably wouldn't have liked the movie that much then. I don't like happy endings, but when there is no happy ending, I wish for one. I'm weird.
heutenichtundso 1 year ago
@heutenichtundso - It is half-happy. Maurice has finally found a satisfying relationship and come to terms with himself.
missbabyice 1 year ago
@heutenichtundso
It did have a happy ending. Maurice and Scudder ended up together. They are based on the real-life Edward Carpenter (Maurice) and George Merrill (Scudder). They moved to Sheffield and lived together 30 years. Carpenter died in 1929 and Merrill in 1928. They are buried together.
amcoca 1 year ago 4
@amcoca I that so?? Wow!! That just made my day!!! At least some real-life stories do have a happy ending!!
DelightfulDelirium 1 year ago
amazing movie love it!!
Beentakenaway123 1 year ago
The 2 grew old together as manual laborers.
MzMeanE 1 year ago
just wanted to say
that i love this book and movie,
and it was a perfect movie and the perfect ending :)
beeo39 1 year ago 3
Phoebe Nichols is wonderful as Anne, as she was in BRIDESHEAD REVISITED; what has she been up to these past 25 years?
billyguns2 1 year ago
MOUSTACHE
PanndaKat 1 year ago 3
nah....tnx 4 uploading
chardy2024 1 year ago
They should have kept that deleted scene in this scene, it makes it FAR more dramatic, and really gives Maurice a "bow out" with a bite.
I'm glad Maurice and Alec ended up together in the end, he couldn't pine for Clive anymore.
Sixu83 1 year ago
I remember first seeing this when it opened in London. No one knew I was gay then and the movie had a profound affect on me. I came out directly after. Over twenty years later, I watched this film here and it still resonates just as strongly. A stunningly rich and beautiful piece. About as perfect a film as there's ever been.
swmyers7 1 year ago 2
That is pretty touching. Yes, it is a good film. Happy you came out.
amcoca 1 year ago
"No. You may *not* ask." That's what having balls sounds like, Clive. Not that you'd ever hear it in your own voice.
swmyers7 1 year ago 2
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wow' another great story!
he really love maurice, but sadly he's with anne.
and i'm happy for maurice. atleast they are both happy now.
and they live not far from each other. though they have their own partner.
this film challenge me, in this era being a gay is realy bad.
but not for maurice. great!
eMoewzz31 1 year ago
Simcox could probably write a really good freaking book!! LOL
plutogirllovekj 1 year ago 2
This movie changed my life!! I love it. How wonderful to see it once again :-)
will74lsn 1 year ago
let's go tell clive about my awesome love life now and make him feel jealous :)
Clearie552 1 year ago
:) great film
BambiiSansAmour 1 year ago
5:02, the most adorable look ever.ooooooo it's wonderful this scene. thank you youtube for making me find this film!!!! i'm eternally grateful
MrsHillHarper 2 years ago
hugh grant's moustache=URGHGHGHLALADJHFETHII AIJJOIOAYUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MrsHillHarper 2 years ago 3
One of if not the best gay film ever made... I remember watching it at home for the first time... my father was still alive... and he was at the tv set room with me. He didn't say anything but I was still a child and went to be and cried for a while. I had been really happy and felt identified with the men in the film... Deliciously awesome.
clivedurham2 2 years ago 2
dude if u think this is good you neeeed to watch latter days and shelter! they are also amazing, i cryed so bad.
gottalovethatcookie 1 year ago 3
@gottalovethatcookie Yes. I reallly loved Shelter too. It's such a great love story
livmlarsen 1 year ago
@gottalovethatcookie Cryed! :D I love Cryed~
PanndaKat 1 year ago
@gottalovethatcookie
I agree that "Shelter " and "Latter Days" are great films however,
what is amazing about "Maurice" is that E.M. Forster wrote the
novel in 1913 and it went unpublished untill after his death in
1971. As a young man I attended the San Francisco premier of
the film in 1987. We have a long way to go but much has changed!
blainebill39 1 year ago
@gottalovethatcookie I just don't get why people keep hyping Latter Days, the acting of the two leads is excruciatingly bad! I guess, with so few good options, drivel like that is over-appreciated!
plutogirllovekj 1 year ago
@plutogirllovekj I thought they were pretty good actors! not in the begining, the beging not so much, but the rest of it was really good! it always makes me wanna cry :'] but in a good way. and dislike a movie JUST because of the acting, you have to look at the whole movie and its message
gottalovethatcookie 1 year ago
This movie was so pivotal in helping me come out. Maurice took the harder path, one that required him to be honest about who he was. In the end it brought him the joy, love and acceptance he was denied for so long. This movie is de riguer for any troubled kids grappling with this sexual orientation.
ibrahimdesign 2 years ago 7
Awesome. Just awesome.
DessThePuk 2 years ago 2
Oh I can watch this film again and again and I'm moved more each time.
maxelldemon 2 years ago 5