However it isn t long before george unexpectedly enters her life again.
A room with a view helena bonham carter.
A cherubic nineteen year old helena bonham carter plays lucy honeychurch a young independent minded upper class edwardian woman who is trying to sort out her burgeoning romantic feelings divided between an enigmatic free spirit leaving las vegas s julian sands she meets on vacation in florence and the priggish bookworm lincoln s.
Directed by james ivory.
A room with a view.
For merchant and ivory a room with a view was their breakthrough to broader success.
Many of the most romantic moments in movies are the results of decidedly unromantic real life on set moments.
The role of lucy honeychurch was helena bonham carter s breakthrough as a film actress.
She was nineteen at the time and had just finished the art house film lady jane 1986.
Lucy meets george in a florence pensione and the two share a brief romance before lucy returns home where she becomes engaged to cecil.