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 not without risks: the region is being ran... (Full plot summary below)
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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 not without risks: the region is being ransacked by a group of sanguinary bandits, and intrigues are opposing the prejudiced British community led by Major Minnies and Dr. Saunders against the nawab. As Anne delves into the history of her grand-aunt, she is led to reconsider her own life.
Leave your thoughts about Heat and Dust.
| Movie NationRoger MooreLovely and leisurely, it lacks the repressed sexual "heat" of the greatest Merchant/Ivory/Jhabvala period pieces. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertBody Heat is good enough to make film noir play like we hadn't seen it before. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatWeaves a magical spell as an exploration of romance and as a sensitive cross-cultural study |
| Slant MagazineKeith WatsonIt'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. |
| Village VoiceBilge EbiriThere's a whole lot of cathartic pain in Heat and Dust, if you know where to look for it. |
| User ReviewSusan CThis movie was fascinating. Olivia, the 1920's housewife, is interesting because she transgressed the stuffy Anglo-Indian environment she's stuck in but also the uber-conservative Indian mores that were part of the petty-princedom that surrounded her. Fascinating portrayal of what life must have been like in this community. Added benefit was that James Ivory was there at HFA to discuss the film. |
| User ReviewZahur SSexy and languid. Greta Scacchi rocked the world in the 1980's. |
| User ReviewMichael SNot one of James Ivorys greatest acheivements but still better than most of films made that year. It was Greta Scacci's first big break, but it is Julie Christie's character you wll remember. |
| User ReviewVinod JA great adaptation by merchant-Ivory. Skilled screenplay. Magical cinematography. |
| User ReviewSamarth SVisually stunning. Watching this I got lost in the bright colours of India and was only brought back when scenes cut to the overwhelming green of England. Pompous, yet alluring, the characters demonstrated remains resilient when faced with foreign values. |
