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- In common with many other Merchant-Ivory films, Heat and Dust is essentially a study in identity and cultural conflict, in which the social and political constraints of a past era conspire to prevent the main protagonist (s) from finding personal fulfilment.
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Heat and Dust is a 1983 British historical romantic drama film, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based on her novel, Heat and Dust (1975). It was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. It stars Greta Scacchi, Shashi Kapoor and Julie Christie. The plot of Heat and Dust follows two intertwined
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.
Plot Summary. Heat and Dust (1975), a novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, won the Booker Prize in 1975. The book takes place within two separate, yet thematically similar, timelines. In the 1920s, during the British Raj, Olivia moves to India with her husband and quickly feels stifled by the strict British society that is maintained in the colonies.
"Heat and Dust" makes the same argument by telling us two love stories, one set in the 1920s, the other set in the present day. The heroine of the earlier love story is Olivia Rivers ( Greta Scacchi ), a free spirit whose independent ways do not fit in with the hidebound values of the British.
Heat and Dust (1975) is a novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala that won the Booker Prize in 1975. The book was also ranked by The Telegraph in 2014 as one of the 10 all-time greatest Asian novels. [1] Plot summary.
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- 1975
The film draws parallels between the experiences of two women separated in time by sixty years, a rootless British investigative journalist Anne and her great aunt Olivia. The stories of the two women are interwoven in a way that emphasises their similarities and the stark differences in their social circumstances.
Overview. 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.
