Starring : Peggy Ashcroft, Larry Pine, Saeed Jaffrey, Victor Banerjee, Aparna Sen, Jane Booker, Shamsuddin, Jenny Beaven, Aladdin Langa
Merchant Ivory Production Presents For London Weekend Television Director: James Ivory Screenplay: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Producer: Ismail Merchant Photography: Walter Lassally Editor: Humphrey Dixon Music: VIC Flick Set Design: Bansi Chandragupta Costumes: Jenny Beaven and Purnima Agawal Executive Producers: Melvyn Bragg
In a frantic and wryly comic battle of wits, two western art collectors – one a wealthy American, the other an eccentric, titled Englishwoman – must vie with a Maharaja and his sister (and each other) to secure a fabulous prize: a legendary collection of Indian miniature paintings.
Blessed with a superb cast, headed by Academy award winner Peggy Ashcroft (A Passage to India), Merchant Ivory Productions 1978 feature ‘Hullabaloo over Georgie and Bonnie’s Pictures’ is itself a detailed and subtle miniature portrait of the manners and mores of two very different cultures. As events unfold, western high-mindedness (mixed with western acquisitiveness) clashes with Indian history and feudal tradition (also both high-minded and acquisitive). A seeming catastrophe forces the two sides to reconcile their differences and the story concludes in a surprising harmony as the protagonists evaluate and rethink their politely grasping natures.
Once again, the Merchant Ivory team has produced a delightful and often very funny film that captures to perfection the exoticism of Indian culture and the pure magic of the miniatures themselves as well as the land that produced them.
Special Features: 20 minute Merchant Ivory film: The Sword and the Flute Colour mode: Colour Disc Format: DVD-9 Audio content: Dolby Digital Region code: PAL Aspect ratio: 4:3 Language: English
1. Opening Credits 2. Are You Well 3. Let Me Have Them 4. My First Miniature 5. That I Don’t Like 6. Trying To Warn Me 7. An English Ghost 8. Bowls 9. Christmas 10. What Is This Place? 11. Did He Like The Pictures? 12. End Credits
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