This DVD was given away by one of the Sundays a while back and I was convinced that I must have seen it previously, since it has certainly been shown on terrestrial television. But I hadn't. Based on E.M. Forster's first novel and with Helena Bonham Carter in the cast you can bet that it was yet another "Heritage" drama like so many of the Merchant-Ivory's (not that it was one of theirs), but it was not without interest. Held together by a small but perfect cast which included Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, and Judy Davis, a tragedy unravels as unthinking Edwardian characters unleash their various hang-ups on a romanticised Italian world. Davis in particular is brilliant as the priggish spinster looking down her nose on any sort of joie de vivre who is responsible for the final disastrous turn of events. As the first half of the film's title would have it: "Fools rush in". My only criticism is that the movie peters out rather sharply and I half expected 'to be continued...' to pop up on the screen.
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