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Heat and Dust
Directed by
James Ivory
R
1983
2h 13m
Romance
,
Drama
6.5
79%
58%
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Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her grand-aunt, she is led to reconsider her own life.
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Cast of Heat and Dust
Julie Christie
Anne
Greta Scacchi
Olivia Rivers
Shashi Kapoor
The Nawab
Nickolas Grace
Harry Hamilton-Paul
Christopher Cazenove
Douglas Rivers
Zakir Hussain
Inder Lal, Anne's landlord
Julian Glover
Crawford
Susan Fleetwood
Mrs. Crawford
Patrick Godfrey
Dr Saunders
Jennifer Kendal
Mrs. Saunders
Charles McCaughan
Chid
Madhur Jaffrey
Begum Mussarat Jahan
Barry Foster
Major Minnies
Ratna Pathak Shah
Ritu
Tarla Mehta
Inder Lal's Mother
Sajid Khan
Dacoit Chief
Amanda Walker
Lady Mackleworth
Praveen Paul
Maji
Jayant Kripalani
Dr Gopal
Sudha Chopra
Chief Princess
Daniel Chatto
Party Guest
Ismail Merchant
Indish Guy (uncredited)
Heat and Dust Ratings & Reviews
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
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.
Slant Magazine
Keith Watson
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.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.
Village Voice
Bilge Ebiri
There's a whole lot of cathartic pain in Heat and Dust, if you know where to look for it.
Battleship Pretension
David Bax
Heat and Dust's mistake is the protraction of Anne's narrative into more than the framing device it logically ought to be.
Vogue
Molly Haskell
In retreating from emotional involvement with its characters, Heat and Dust ultimately suffers from the gentility it parodies.
Vanity Fair
Stephen Schiff
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.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Weaves a magical spell as an exploration of romance and as a sensitive cross-cultural study
Common Sense Media
Kat Halstead
This won't be remembered as one of Merchant Ivory's classics, but it's an enticing story beautifully rendered nonetheless, and one that won Jhabvala a BAFTA for her adapted screenplay.
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