Heat and Dust

In cinemas 8 March 2019.

Watch the trailer for Heat and Dust (1983).

“A delight”
Time Out

“Of all their [Merchant Ivory] collaborations, none has been more graceful, funny, literate or entertaining than Heat and Dust”
New York Times

UK 1983
130 mins
Cert 15
4K DCP

Dir James Ivory
With Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi, Shashi Kapoor

Anne (Julie Christie), a young historical researcher, inherits letters written by her great aunt Olivia (Greta Scacchi), and becomes obsessed with their revelations of her past in India.

Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from her Booker Prize-winning novel, and winner of Best Screenplay at the 1983 BAFTAs, Heat and Dust is an evocative Merchant Ivory classic.