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Heat and Dust
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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- Heat and Dust
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- Country
- GB
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CinemaSerf
Apr 1, 2024 · via TMDB
It's not really too surprising that it was only Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's adaptation of her own novel that garnered any attention on the awards circuit from this film. Otherwise, it's a rather sterile story of mischief amongst the Raj that rather left me cold. The plot centres around the investigations of "Anne" (Julie Christie) into the goings-on in the 1920s that involved her lively great-aunt "Olive" (Greta Scacchi). Now this lady had only recently arrived to be with her new husband "Douglas" (Christopher Cazenove) and is swiftly immersed in the upper-class colonial lifestyle that sees her hobnobbing with the British establishment and with the local Nawab (Shashi Kapoor) who plays the game, subtly, for all it's worth. Meantime, we are aware of the precariousness of all of this as bandits maraud the countryside and anti-British sentiment is never far away. As "Anne" learns more about her relative, she begins to ask herself a few questions about her own life - and those imponderables lead her to begin to reevaluate who she is. It's a great looking film to watch, but somehow nobody ever manages to inject any passion or soul into their characters. Even the sex scenes come across strangely unemotional - in any sense. Christie worked far better for me in an earthier, more visceral, role and with the possible expception of Susan Fleetwood's "Mrs. Crawford", most of the cast were just too comfortable with there allocated persona. They came across as if they really could be the fatuous, entitled, cheating individuals - and I found that a little bit dull. There's plenty of dust, but heat? See what you think....
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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
Sajid Khan
Dacoit Chief
Amanda Walker
Lady Mackleworth
Jayant Kripalani
Dr Gopal
Daniel Chatto
Party Guest
Ismail Merchant
Indish Guy (uncredited)
Drew Struzan
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Jayant Paranji
Assistant Property Master
Walter Lassally
Director of Photography
Rajesh Joshi
Second Assistant Camera
James Ivory
Director
Susie Figgis
Casting
Deepak Nayar
Location Manager
Ismail Merchant
Producer
Harry Rabinowitz
Conductor
Zakir Hussain
Music Director
Richard Robbins
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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