Heat and Dust (2-DVD) R
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 12, 2017
- Originally Released: 1983
- Label: Cohen Media Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Julie Christie, Shashi Kapoor, Greta Scacchi & Zakir Hussain | |
Performer: | Christopher Cazenove, Julian Glover, Susan Fleetwood, Patrick Godfrey, Jennifer Kendal, Madhur Jaffrey, Nickolas Grace, Amanda Walker & Barry Foster | |
Directed by | James Ivory | |
Edited by | Humphrey Dixon | |
Screenplay by | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | |
Composition by | Richard Robbins | |
Produced by | Ismail Merchant | |
Director of Photography: | Walter Lassally |
Entertainment Reviews:
Only James Ivory's somnolent good taste could make this passage to India so drab, but he gets a bright performance from Julie Christie... and a ravishing one from Greta Scacchi.
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Vanity Fair
Weaves a magical spell as an exploration of romance and as a sensitive cross-cultural study
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Heat and Dust is a carefully plotted melodrama which is both vicious in its demeaning treatment of women, but also the troubling implications of festering post-colonialist issues.
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IONCINEMA.com
...HEAT AND DUST is as wise as it us unpretentious...
Sight and Sound
...Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's adaptation of her own novel cleverly contrasts the experiences of modern-day Englishwoman Anne with those of her great-aunt...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 2/4 --
It's unlikely to win over Merchant-Ivory skeptics, but it does represent an intriguing transition from the India-centered social realism of their earlier work to the lavish literary adaptations for which they would become famous.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 3/4 --
Heat and Dust contains wonderful sights and sounds and textures. It is seductive, treating both of its love stories with seriousness; these are not romances, but decisions to dissent.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Director James Ivory's HEAT AND DUST tells two parallel stories set in India, one in the present and the other in the days of British rule. In 1920s India, a young English bride, Olivia (Greta Scacchi), finds herself in a passionate, forbidden affair with the local Nawab (Shashi Kapoor). In the second story, Olivia's great niece, Anne (Julie Christie), travels to India and there learns of her great aunt's affair with the Nawab, her subsequent pregnancy, and her exile from the British community. Anne's life begins to roughly imitate that of Olivia's when she has an affair with a local Indian administrator (Zakir Hussain) and also becomes pregnant. Merchant Ivory screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based the film's screenplay on her own acclaimed novel of the same name. Jhabvala was raised in England but after meeting her husband, an Indian architect, moved to India, where she lived for 24 years. Her screenplays AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PRINCESS, HULLABALOO OVER GEORGIE AND BONNIE'S PICTURES, and HEAT AND DUST reflect her own experiences as a British citizen living in a foreign land. At the time the film was released in 1983, HEAT AND DUST was Merchant Ivory's biggest commercial success.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 49,090
- UPC: 741952841593
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