Neglected Films No.1 – ‘A Handful Of Dust’

Satire is not always easy to appreciate. Too broad and it displeases the critics; too narrow and it displeases general audiences. The critics branded Merchant Ivory films ‘heritage cinema’, a lazy catch-all that suggested ladies in big frocks emoting beneath proscenium arches. Their coded meaning was that the films were politically conservative. But they had [...]