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  • Le Divorce (2003)
    Review preview for Le Divorce

    Everything about the film is ill-judged, miscast and intellectually anorexic.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Rom-com centring two Americans in Paris.
  • The Golden Bowl (2000)
    Review preview for The Golden Bowl

    Everything you expect from Merchant Ivory is here.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Dangerous infidelities amongst the rich and aristocratic in Edwardian London.
  • Heat And Dust (1983)
    Review preview for Heat And Dust

    The two time periods are balanced with care although the earlier one with its opulence and lush cinematography from Walter Lassally remains the most beguiling.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A woman heads to India, intrigued by the scandal caused by her grandaunt.
  • Maurice (1987)
    Review preview for Maurice

    What's really revolutionary about this film is the way Ivory photographs male bodies.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A young man has to come to terms with his sexuality.
  • The Remains Of The Day (1993)
    Review preview for The Remains Of The Day

    The ideas are presented in a crisp, unfussy way by James Ivory. He’s working with an intelligent script by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and two impeccable central performances by Hopkins and Thompson.

    James Benefield · 4.5 out of 5
    A butler realises late in life the folly of his devotion to the household he has served.
  • A Room With A View (1985)
    Review preview for A Room With A View

    The cast could not be better.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A chance encounter in Florence leads a respectable young Englishwoman to develop secret passions.
  • A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1997)
    Review preview for A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

    As a rites-of-passage, it suffers too wide a time frame.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Rites-of-passage drama about a writer's daughter.
  • The White Countess (2005)
    Review preview for The White Countess

    A turgid, gelatinous epic that fails to find its feet until the tumultuous final reel.

    The Exile · 2 out of 5
    The tortured romance between a blind American diplomat and a taxi dancing Russian widow in Shanghai on the eve of war.

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