I saw him last weekend in “A Room With a View” as an hilariously awkward Victorian “intellectual”. I felt he should have been nominated for Oscar but not to be. I love the movie.
He was so funny as “Cecil Vyse.”
Maybe Martin Scorsese will come up with a third good role in a New York story for Daniel and bring him out of retirement.
I saw that in a theater when it came out. I realized DDL had tremendous potential when he stole a scene that he only appeared in in the background. It was an interior scene with that lovely lady actress and someone else. DDL was outside the window in the backyard, holding his teacup, ever so properly, while swatting away flies. In my humble opinion, he stole that scene and completely distracted from the main event.
One of my favorite movies, ever. His performance was dead on of a terribly repressed gentleman and mother's boy attempting to court a red-blooded but socially constrained Edwardian woman. It brought tears both times I saw it. The rest of the cast was also fantastic in their roles, not even to mention the scenery, production and writing and the soundtrack.