A Cooler Climate
An essay on history, memory and gay desire developed from the materials of an unfinished documentary.
75'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
An Indian princess in self-exile celebrates her birthday with her father’s former tutor, watching documentaries that show the beauty of her native country in the time prior to independence. A personal favourite of James Ivory, who seems to have tailored his own film autobiography some time after this gem.
– Olaf Möller
Programmed alongside: A Cooler Climate
IFFR 2023
- 58'
- United Kingdom
- 1975
- Director
- James Ivory
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 1975
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 58'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Ismail Merchant
- Production Company
- Merchant Ivory Productions
- Sales
- Cohen Media
- Screenplay
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Cinematography
- Walter Lassally
- Editor
- Humphrey Dixon
- Music
- Vic Flick
- Cast
- James Mason, Madhur Jaffrey, Keith Varnier, Diane Fletcher, Timothy Bateson, Johnny Stuart
- Local Distributor
- Eye Filmmuseum
- Director
- James Ivory
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 1975
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 58'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Ismail Merchant
- Production Company
- Merchant Ivory Productions
- Sales
- Cohen Media
- Screenplay
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Cinematography
- Walter Lassally
- Editor
- Humphrey Dixon
- Music
- Vic Flick
- Cast
- James Mason, Madhur Jaffrey, Keith Varnier, Diane Fletcher, Timothy Bateson, Johnny Stuart
- Local Distributor
- Eye Filmmuseum
Programme IFFR 2023
Cinema Regained
A sphere of collective remembrance and imagination offering restored classics, documentaries on film culture, and explorations of cinema’s heritage.
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IFFR 2023
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Little-seen teleplay on memory and displacement – perhaps the model for Ivory’s A Cooler Climate!
58'
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IFFR 2023