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Only one thing could come between Lilia and her Italian lover… her in-laws.
An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
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Rupert Graves Helen Mirren Helena Bonham Carter Barbara Jefford Judy Davis Thomas Wheatley Sophie Kullmann Vass Anderson Sylvia Barter Eileen Davies Siria Betti Giovanni Guidelli Anna Lelio Luca Lazzareschi Sergio Falasca Evelina Meghnagi Gaetano Piro Giuseppe Vivenzio Tullio Baccellini Lea Burroni Clementina Sguerri Charlie Pinsent
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Där änglar vägrar gå, Engel und Narren, Monteriano - dove gli angeli non osano metter piede, Ahol angyal se jár, Куда боятся ступить ангелы, Изход към континента, Donde los ángeles no se aventuran, מקום בו מלאכים פוחדים לדרוך, Kam se i andělé bojí vstoupit, 天使不敢驻足的地方
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21 Jun 1991
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MILD SPOILERS AHEAD
The marriage of a middle aged widow to a young working class Italian causes shockwaves in the woman’s disapproving extended family, whose attempts to preserve the status quo could lead to potentially dire consequences for all involved, in Charles Sturridge’s drama based on EM Forster’s novel with Rupert Graves, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Giovanni Guidelli and Helen Mirren.
Forster’s trademark themes of snobbery and repression are explored here through the culture clash that runs throughout the story, putting the emotionally closed-off family members side-by-side with their more hot-blooded continental counterparts to show just how hypocritical all these unwritten rules of polite society really are.…
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There were so many great EM Forster adaptations in the 80s and 90s, and also this one.
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“i seem fated to pass through this life without colliding with it or moving it. i don’t die, i don’t fall in love. and if other people die or fall in love, they always do it when i’m not there. some people are born not to do things. and i’m one of them. you would be surprised to know what my great events are. going to the theatre yesterday, talking with you now. i don’t think i shall ever meet anything greater.”
an e.m. forster adaptation with helena bonham carter and rupert graves but it’s NOT directed by james ivory??? no thanks! not for me
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whoever was responsible for casting rupert graves and helena bonham carter in all these e. m. forster adaptations.....you deserve the world and we owe you so much
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‘So they all rolled over and one fell out…’
Another of those facsimile away-day Edwardian Sundays where everything is optimised for pictorial placements. As usual a chugging musical score suggests an animation of endeavour otherwise lacking, with Forster’s wit generally elsewhere. Janet Maslin in The New York Times got it right by identifying this is as a ‘frontal work’: there’s just nothing much to it.
Not only is it a skin deep pastiche of the past, but marks a return of too many creatives to such glossy torpidity: Sturridge & Granger, perhaps hoping to repeat the success of Brideshead Revisited, and Bonham Carter & Graves having spent too long under this particular sun (and still showing tan lines years later).
Only Davis…
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Charles Sturridge’s British drama. After an Edwardian widow unwarily weds a good-looking but needy Tuscan dentist and perishes in childbirth, her English in-laws attempt to gain care of the baby.
Where Angels Fear to Tread is adapted from the novel of the same name by E.M. Forster, which was published in 1905 – and the final product isn’t magnificent, but certainly not a disaster.
When a wealthy widow, Lilia (Helen Mirren), makes her way to Tuscany with her pal Caroline (Helena Bonham Carter), she falls in love with Gino (Giovanni Guidelli), an impoverished man.
Lilia's previous mother-in-law, Irma (Judy Davis), is concerned the marriage is not an appropriate one, but she is unable to persuade Lilia to go back to…
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I love Helen Mirren in this sophisticated period piece.
The story concerns Lilia, a British widow who travels to Italy. There she falls for a son of a....dentist. Her family is against the relationship.
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