Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures

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04/17/2015 The acting is fine, the film not so much. See more 09/28/2011 was a Brit TV movie but feels and looks like a feature film another winner fron merchant ivory! See more 03/06/2011 One of Merchant-Ivory's lesser Indian films, the title sounds like a screwball comedy, but the movie is far from it. If the film actually was made as a screwball comedy, I think it would have been a marvelous piece of work. But instead we get an average film that looks great in setpieces, but bland in execution. Well, we know that Merchant-Ivory are not headliners of comedy, but I'd love to see another take on this movie. See more Mike M 05/12/2010 Made for TV back in the days when Merchant-Ivory were still eastward-looking independents rather than a globally renowned heritage industry, this slight but appealing drama details the selling-off of an empire... There's less of a hullabaloo than a mild fuss as characters who arrive in India expecting no more than an extended shopping expedition match wits over the snooker table or bowls lawn, then leave with more than they bargained for. In cinematic terms, it now seems somewhat modest and clunky: the grandeur we'd come to associate with these filmmakers is still some years away, and the whole rarely feels pressing. What's evident, though, is its generosity towards all the participants, and a true engagement with Indian culture and heritage, as signalled by the expert eye Ivory's camera casts over the paintings in question. A useful sketch for the East-meets-West business of "Heat and Dust" four years later; fans of Olivier Assayas's more recent "Summer Hours" - which played a similar game en francais - might find something to shell out for, too. See more Read all reviews

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