Miss Redgrave was roundly complimented on her performance and asked if she would continue her auspicious association with the Merchant-Ivory team.

The marriage, disclosed over the weekend, seems, well, weird because the Disney Company and the Merchant-Ivory team have entirely different tastes and styles: relentlessly commercial versus relentlessly highbrow.

The Merchant-Ivory team has seized the attention of Hollywood only in recent years, because of a string of major commercial successes after years of sometimes offbeat, sometimes artsy, often critically acclaimed movies.

The Merchant-Ivory team has a reputation beyond reproach, but doubts are raised by obvious staged content such as two courtesans sneaking messages to a shared boyfriend.

And locations in Paris, where the Merchant-Ivory team made "Jefferson in Paris" last year, included the Pont Royal and the Cafe de Flore as well as the Brasserie Lipp.

Merchant-Ivory Music When March 21 rolls around, the Merchant-Ivory team will start shooting "Slaves of New York," based on the Tama Janowitz best seller about some of the more exotic denizens of Manhattan.

Not Everyone Is Excited But the film's screenwriter, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who has won two Academy Awards for previous films with the Merchant-Ivory team and was nominated for a third today, was characteristically low-key about it.

The director knows how most people react when they hear that the Merchant-Ivory team has taken on Ms. Janowitz's knowing look at the downtown world of artists and pretenders, where a period costume means last year's dress.

Working without a classic at hand, the Merchant-Ivory team adapts a novel by Kaylie Jones, James Jones's daughter, into a colorful panorama weakened by autobiographical sprawl.

A Room with a View was adapted as a film in 1985 by the Merchant-Ivory team.