Word: bonham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first thought the contrast between Sheedy and Helena Bonham Carter, 19, the English star of Lady Jane and A Room with a View, is roughly that between Los Angeles and London. Then the imagined gap narrows. Each young woman is exceptionally intelligent, and each knows that she was chosen for her first role mostly for her looks, to please the camera as a pretty teenager. Each is the daughter of a prosperous and secure upper-middle-class family that was shaken by trauma. Sheedy's parents separated when she was nine, and she spent the rest of her childhood shuttling...
Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter), an understated but passionate girl from Surrey, is on holiday in Florence when she meets and unconsciously falls in love with an impetuous, progressive-thinking English lad, George Emerson (Julian Sands...
...film's evocation of the period sustains it in spite of the miscasting of Bonham Carter as Lucy, giving a performance all too reminiscent of an earlier role as the title character in Lady Jane. Perhaps the two characters are similar in personality, but it would seem more likely that Bonham Carter's nascent acting skills require broadening...
...suits this spirit admirably, counterpointing and controlling the theatrical overplaying he encourages among his players. Maggie Smith as Lucy's dithering chaperone is marvelous, and so is Denholm Elliott, blustering common sense as George's father. Daniel Day Lewis as the well-named Vyse is terminally repressed, and Helena Bonham Carter establishes herself here (and in the recent Lady Jane) as one of the screen's most intriguing newcomers. No one plays adolescent petulance better just now; no one better understands the budding young lady's secret of being charming in spite of herself. Only Julian Sands as George...
...story of Jane and Guildford, as told by Screenwriter David Edgar and Director Trevor Nunn (the Nicholas Nickleby team), has the superficial air of the standard movie history lesson: courtiers elegantly whispering in drafty castle corridors. But they have not forgotten that their central figures, nicely played by Helena Bonham Carter and Cary Elwes, are adolescents, full of hot passion for each other and idealistic schemes for reforming a kingdom the grownups have muddled. The result is a portrait of a teen queen that is lively, ironic and affectionate, and a movie that is not so much stodgy...