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Heat and Dust

Julie Christie and Greta Scacchi star in this sensual and evocative Merchant Ivory classic, adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from her Booker Prize-winning novel.

Drama 1983 130 mins

Director: James Ivory

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Overview

Anne (Julie Christie), a young historical researcher, inherits letters written by her great aunt Olivia (Greta Scacchi) and becomes obsessed with their revelations of her past in colonial India. Flitting between the present-day and the 1920s, the film examines their parallel journeys of self-discovery and the eternal, seductive allures of the country.

Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from her Booker Prize-winning novel, and winner of Best Screenplay at the 1983 BAFTAs, Heat and Dust is a sensual and evocative Merchant Ivory classic.

Director

James Ivory

Featuring

Christopher Cazenove , Greta Scacchi , Julian Glover , Shashi Kapoor and Madhur Jaffrey

Genres

Drama

Certificate

moderate sex references, nudity, discrimination, sexual threat, violence

Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

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