Where Angels Fear To Tread Details

An adaptation of EM Forster's novel brought to the screen, not by Messrs Merchant and Ivory, but by the team responsible for the Brideshead Revisited TV drama. It's a classy story about earthy passion and xenophobia, with Helen Mirren as the strong-willed, widowed Englishwoman, Lilia Herriton, who falls in love with Tuscany and acquires a young Italian lover. Back home, her frosty family sinks in shame and sends Rupert Graves to sort things out. The inevitable lashings of dappled Tuscan sunlight and some strong performances by the cast — which also includes Helena Bonham Carter (naturally) and the excellent Judy Davis, getting a second dose of Forster after A Passage to India — add up to the movie equivalent of high tea.

The fostering of Forster in a rash of movies since the mid-'80s continues with this adaptation of the novel in which... read more on Time Out