James Ivory’s Heat and Dust offers plenty of opportunity to luxuriate in exquisite period and location detail.
Criterion’s 4K Blu-ray masterfully displays what makes Merchant Ivory productions a continued commercial attraction.
DP Javier Aguirresarobe frames the action in a series of handsome, unfussy arrangements that matches the languished mood of the piece.
Not my cup of tea. I don’t even like tea.
Like so many Merchant-Ivory films, Howards End is a luxurious frame without a picture.