After a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English in-laws try to gain custody of the baby.
Starring – Helena Bonham Carter, Helen Mirren, Judy Davis, Rupert Graves
Directed by – Charles Sturridge
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En castellano…por favor…š
Weirdo movie š®
Extraordinary ! beyond words…..
Bonham-Carter played Morgan La Fay in the 1998 Merlin miniseries
great movie, me cant stand snobs, hahaha
The message of this novel is that one can't force happiness. It was silly that she marries in Italy, then she was soon abused in marriage and instead of fleeing what she initially wanted but missed a carriage she stay d pregnant, died and her baby boy was killed in carriage accident. It all makes a sense, sad sense but no good comes out of actions that are carless to start with.
Iām sorry for my lost 1.5 hours. What was the morals hereš®
At the end was he going to propose? Then she said she was in live with Gino
Bitter, frustrated Harriet.
Stop with the commercials promoting gambling!!!
Absolutely rubbish!!!
This show was pointless.
Horrible people. What a world.
At the end did Helena and Rupert declare their love for Gino, or each other? Iām a bit confused by the end.
Un esempio della stupiditĆ britannica
What a GREAT MOVEā¦.Shocked at the END couldnāt believe the ENDā¦.
Is this movie doesnāt make you feel old- Helen Mirren is 79 in 2025! And when she was acting in this she was 33 and this was in 91ā¦the year I graduated high-school – dang.
One of the worst most confusing plots ever!
Helen and Helen, powerful of lifes energy
Very interesting & entertaining right till the end, but I was not blown away or consider this Wow worthy. Nice enough for another š, but I'd give it 3 out of 5 stars for content / script.
The ads I can understand but the invasive music/voices crashing in at thrice the loudness of the film, an agression with real harm on the ears, no commercial interest justifies it – normalized, a violent civilization we live in, no wonder children are shooting their classmates and men their partners, random passers by. Just a matter of degree even if that may seem an extreme parallel, but it is so ingrained and snowballing
Helen Bonam Carter is always a pleasure. Who doesn't love this woman.
Terrible movie, the beginning is poorly explained (unless you read the book by author EM Forster), Helen Mirren as the widower already with child falling for a man half her age in Italy? Really? Already an un-enticing plot. The acting is average. Giovanni Guidelli does not remotely act as a Southern Italian! More of a Rupert Everett public school Cardboard cut-out! Almost comical. The movie is too long as well. No wonder it bombed at its release….
Did the baby die? Oh my gosh
Crazy ending. I didn't like this movie. Although, i knew she was in love with him. I figured they'd marry and have a good life with the baby.
Do its the catholic who practiced forgiveness as a true Christian but then the English protestant wife portrayed him as an abuser as she couldn't have a disco life not blending into his lifestyle knowing he is a peasant and at the end the protestants stampped mother Marys pictured and concluded gino had no heart after forgiving them just cause he moved on. I had to watch the ending a couple of times to Understand what the author or writer had to say. Anyways England is gone for the dogs and therefore all the white bimbos converted to Islam over night for a big d or brain washed.
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The sister Harriet very emotional bless her šJess
Where Angels Fear to Tread is a 1991 British drama film directed by Charles Sturridge and starring Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Rupert Graves, Giovanni Guidelli, Barbara Jefford, and Helen Mirren.[2] The screenplay by Sturridge, Tim Sullivan, and Derek Granger is based on the 1905 novel of the same name by E. M. Forster.
Plot
Recently widowed and anxious to escape the clutches of her oppressively meddlesome in-laws, free-spirited Lilia Herriton, nƩe Theobald (Helen Mirren) travels to the hillside Tuscan town of Monteriano with her young friend Caroline Abbott (Helena Bonham Carter), under the guise of being her chaperone, whilst leaving her young daughter in the care of her grandparents. There she falls in love with both the countryside and Gino Carella, a handsome young villager, and she decides to stay. Appalled by her behaviour and concerned about Lilia's future, Mrs. Herriton, Lilia's strait-laced mother-in-law, dispatches her own son Philip (Rupert Graves) to Italy to persuade her to return home, but by the time he arrives Lilia and Gino have wed. He and Caroline return home, unable to forgive themselves for not putting an end to what they see as a clearly unsuitable marriage.
Lilia is startled to discover her desire for independence is at odds with Gino's traditional values, and she is shocked when he becomes physical to clarify his position. Their relationship becomes less volatile when Lilia becomes pregnant, but she dies in childbirth, leaving her grieving husband with an infant son to raise with the help of his ageing mother.
When word of Lilia's death reaches England, Caroline decides to return to Italy to save the boy from what she believes will surely be a difficult life. Not wanting to be outdone, or considered any less moral or less concerned than Caroline for the child's welfare, Lilia's mother-in-law sends Philip and his priggish spinster sister Harriet (Judy Davis) to Monteriano to obtain custody of the infant and bring him back to Sawston, where he can receive what she perceives to be a proper upbringing and education. Everything about the journeyāespecially the heat, the uncomfortable accommodations, and her difficulty communicating with the locals, distresses repressed and xenophobic Harriet; but Philip and Caroline both begin to find themselves attracted to everything Tuscan that had appealed to Lilia. Philip and Caroline also begin to sympathise with Gino and his loving relationship with his son, but though Philip says he 'understands everyone', he vacillates to even broach the subject of getting custody of the boy to Gino. Philip can't seem to 'settle it, and do the right thing', as Caroline reminds him. Harriet is left to take matters into her own hands and makes a decision that leads to tragic consequences.
In contrast to the novel, the film adds an "upbeat" ending to the changes in the story, by hinting that love between Caroline and Philip may be possible.
Cast
Rupert Graves ā Philip Herriton
Helena Bonham Carter ā Caroline Abbott
Judy Davis ā Harriet Herriton
Giovanni Guidelli ā Gino Carella
Helen Mirren ā Lilia Herriton
Barbara Jefford ā Mrs. Herriton
Sophie Kullmann ā Irma
Production
The film was shot on location in San Gimignano, Italy in the province of Siena.[citation needed]
Reception
Critical response
Janet Maslin of The New York Times observed the film "has been faithfully but unimaginatively directed by Charles Sturridge, whose … principal asset here is a very fine cast. The actors perform flawlessly even when the staging is too pedestrian for the ideas being expressed, and when the film's flat, uninflected style allows some of those ideas to be overlooked or thrown away … Mr. Sturridge's assault on his material is strictly frontal, with a screenplay … that adequately summarizes the novel but rarely approaches its depth. Although the film stumbles unimaginatively over some of Forster's more elaborate scenes … and although it moves gracelessly back and forth between Italy and England, its most significant lapse is visual. Tuscany, as photographed by Michael Coulter, is never as ravishing as it deserves to be either for strictly scenic purposes or for illustrating Forster's view of Italy's magnetic allure. Even so, the material and the performances often rise above these limitations. At its occasional best, Where Angels Fear to Tread even captures the transcendent aspects of Forster's tale."[3]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote the film "is rather unconvincing as a story and a movie; Forster had not yet learned to bury his themes completely within the action of a novel, as he does so brilliantly in Howards End. There are also some problems with the castingāespecially that of Giovanni Guidelli, who never seems like a real character and is sometimes dangerously close to being a comic Italian. The tug-of-war over the baby is uncomfortably melodramatic, and the whole closing sequence of the movie seems written, not lived. There are some good things, especially Mirren's widow, tasting passion and love for the first time, and Davis' sister, a prototype for all those dreadnought British spinsters for whom false pride is a virtue, not a sin."[4]
Rita Kempley of The Washington Post thought Sturridge "seems less like a driven director than an impersonal subtitler. He takes no liberties with the material; he merely translates the story from page to screen. On the whole, it's rather like reading without the effort of holding the book. For many, this will do quite nicely, thank you. Others will find it all too stranglingly Anglophilic, which is perhaps the point."[5]
Variety called the film "a far more rewarding dip into the E.M. Forster tub than some of its predecessors" with "none of the top-heaviness of David Lean's A Passage to India or the starchiness of Merchant Ivory's A Room with a View."[6]
Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly graded the film C, noting "except for Helen Mirren's brief, mischievous performance … the movie remains frustratingly distant from its characters' inner lives."[7]
Time Out New York wrote, "The performances and scenery cannot be faulted … But though things connect much better than they did in Sturridge's A Handful of Dust, the screenplay degenerates into a static succession of talking heads. Sturridge's work still seems to be TV masquerading as cinema."[8]
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 67% from 15 reviews.[9]
Box office
The film made Ā£305,179 in the UK.[1]
Accolades
Judy Davis won the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in both this film and Husbands and Wives.[10]
Home media
Image Entertainment released the film in anamorphic widescreen format on Region 1 DVD on 7 November 2006.[citation needed] The only bonus feature is the original trailer.
Where Angels Fear to Tread is a 1905 novel by E. M. Forster. The title comes from a line in Alexander Pope's poem An Essay on Criticism: "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread".
The BBC adapted the novel for television in 1966 as a Play of the Month. In 1991 it was made into a film by Charles Sturridge, starring Rupert Graves, Giovanni Guidelli, Helen Mirren, Helena Bonham Carter, and Judy Davis.[1] A ten-part radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.[2] An opera based on the novel by Mark Weiser was premiered at the Peabody Institute of Music in 1999, and received its professional premiere at Opera San Jose in 2015.[3]
Plot summary
On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and travelling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with Gino, a handsome Italian man much younger than herself, and decides to stay. Furious, her dead husband's family send Lilia's brother-in-law Philip to Italy to prevent a misalliance, but he arrives too late. Lilia has already married Gino and becomes pregnant again. She gives birth to a son, but dies in childbirth. Caroline decides to go to Tuscany again to save the child from what she perceives will be a difficult life. Not to be outdone, the Herritons send Philip again to Italy, this time accompanied by his sister Harriet, to save the family's reputation. In the public eye, they make it known that it is both their right and their duty to travel to Italy to obtain custody of the infant so that he can be raised as an Englishman. Secretly, though, they have no regard for the child, only public appearances.
Philip and Harriet meet Caroline in Monteriano. Both Philip and Caroline eventually fall under the charm of Italy, which causes them to waver in their original purpose. They further learn that Gino is fiercely devoted to his and Lilia's infant son. As they admit defeat in their mission however, Harriet kidnaps the baby, but the baby is accidentally killed when the carriage he is in overturns. Gino, hearing the news, attacks Phillip, but the two are reconciled after Caroline's mediation. Gino's physical outburst toward Philip in response to the news makes Philip realise what it is like to truly be alive. The guilt felt by Harriet causes her to lose her mind. Finally, as Philip and Caroline return to England, he realises that he is in love with Caroline but that he can never be with her, because she admits, dramatically, to being in love with Gino.
Writing
With a working title of "The Rescue", Forster began the novel in late 1904, completing ten chapters in one month.[4] He modelled the character of Philip Herriton on Professor Edward J Dent.[5] "He knew this, and took an interest in his own progress", said Forster. The author proposed to call the book "Monteriano" but the publishers didn't like it. It was Dent who contributed the final title.[6]
Critical reception
The reviewer for UK daily newspaper The Manchester Guardian (forerunner of The Guardian) wrote in August 1905: "Where Angels Fear to Tread is not at all the kind of book that its title suggests. It is not mawkish or sentimental or commonplace. The motive of the story [ā¦] is familiar and ordinary enough, but the setting and treatment of this motive are almost startlingly original". The review noted "a persistent vein of cynicism which is apt to repel, but the cynicism is not deep-seated. [ā¦] [I]t takes the form of a sordid comedy culminating, unexpectedly and with a real dramatic force, in a grotesque tragedy." It concluded by saying, "We wonder whether EM Forster could be a little more charitable without losing in force and originality. An experiment might be worth trying."[7]
Lionel Trilling wrote, "Forster's first novel appeared in 1905. The author was 26, not a remarkable age at which to have written a first novel unless the novel be, as Forster's was, a whole and mature work dominated by a fresh and commanding intelligence".[
So who was the real villain ! š
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