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Heat and Dust

1983

James Ivory

Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi, Julian Glover, Susan Fleetwood ...

6.1

308

Drama Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. The search leads back to the early 1920s, when Olivia, recently married to Douglas, a civil servant in the colonial administration, comes to live with him in India. Slowly, Olivia becomes fascinated by India and by the local ruler, a nawab who combines British distinction with Indian pomp and ruthlessness. This fascination is ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Heat and Dust' contains wonderful sights and sounds and textures. It is seductive, treating both of its love stories with seriousness (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A triumph of charm, complexity and hidden depths (...) Shashi Kapoor is terrifically good (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Keith Watson Slant	"An honest attempt to translate the emotional depth and narrative complexity of the novel (...) [It has] little more dramatic weight or sociological insight than a book of tourist snapshots (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"[A] wise, multilayered, essentially comic adaptation (...) [Christie] is lovely and commonsensical (...) Graceful, funny, literate [and] entertaining"	POS
United States	Bilge Ebiri Village Voice	"The movie does have a certain old-fashioned charm, a confident grace that lulls you into its world (...) The movie’s anger and sorrow sneak up on us"	POS

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