Heat and Dust (1983)

Told through parallel tales, Julie Christie travels to India guided by the letters of her great aunt Greta Scacchi written almost 50 years earlier. I’ve long wished to visit India and this Merchant-Ivory production makes it both more gorgeous and more foreboding to the novice traveler. I far preferred the earlier story though the obvious similarities between the two makes for interesting comparing and contrasting. Aside from what I’ve gleaned from movies, I don’t know a lot about the British Raj and this provides a window into its heyday and its aftereffects.