• Director(s)

    James Ivory

  • Production Year

    1983

  • Release date

    05/02/2019

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    130m

  • Cast

    Christopher Cazenove, Greta Scacchi, Julian Glover, Susan Fleetwood, Patrick Godfrey, Jennifer Kendal, Shashi Kapoor, Madhur Jaffrey, Nickolas Grace, Barry Foster, Julie Christie, Zakir Hussain

Film

Heat And Dust

moderate sex references, nudity, discrimination, sexual threat, violence

HEAT AND DUST is a 1983 British drama in which a woman travels to India to find out about the life of her great-aunt, who was the wife of a British colonial official.…

HEAT AND DUST is a 1983 British drama in which a woman travels to India to find out about the life of her great-aunt, who was the wife of a British colonial official.

violence
A man corners a woman and attempts to expose his genitals to her. After a brief struggle, she manages to shove him aside and get away. Another scene contains non-graphic verbal references to rape, and another features a brief reference to 'early marriages'.
sex
While a man and woman kiss and embrace, the man briefly rubs his hand between the woman's legs over her underwear and then squeezes her clothed breast. In another scene a man shows a woman what appears to be a tent pole erection under his bedclothes but then reveals that he was actually holding a banana. Occasional moderate verbal sex references include references to orgasms and pornography in addition to infrequent use of the term 'prick'.
discrimination
There are occasional scenes in which white characters express racist attitudes towards Indian people. For example, a woman claims that all Indian men are potential rapists, and a man claims that Indian people are less intelligent than white people. The work as a whole does not condone discriminatory attitudes or language.
nudity
There is rear nudity when a man and woman converse while lying naked in bed together. The man then lays his head on the woman's bare breasts.
additional issues
There are occasional verbal references to unsafe abortion practices. A brief scene shows a woman undergoing an abortion, without graphic visual detail. There are infrequent scenes of a woman in distress as she experiences epileptic seizures.

  • Director(s)

    James Ivory

  • Production Year

    1983

  • Release date

    05/02/2019

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    130m

  • Cast

    Christopher Cazenove, Greta Scacchi, Julian Glover, Susan Fleetwood, Patrick Godfrey, Jennifer Kendal, Shashi Kapoor, Madhur Jaffrey, Nickolas Grace, Barry Foster, Julie Christie, Zakir Hussain

moderate sex references, nudity, discrimination, sexual threat, violence
Classified Date:
05/02/2019
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
BFI Films
violence
A man corners a woman and attempts to expose his genitals to her. After a brief struggle, she manages to shove him aside and get away. Another scene contains non-graphic verbal references to rape, and another features a brief reference to 'early marriages'.
sex
While a man and woman kiss and embrace, the man briefly rubs his hand between the woman's legs over her underwear and then squeezes her clothed breast. In another scene a man shows a woman what appears to be a tent pole erection under his bedclothes but then reveals that he was actually holding a banana. Occasional moderate verbal sex references include references to orgasms and pornography in addition to infrequent use of the term 'prick'.
discrimination
There are occasional scenes in which white characters express racist attitudes towards Indian people. For example, a woman claims that all Indian men are potential rapists, and a man claims that Indian people are less intelligent than white people. The work as a whole does not condone discriminatory attitudes or language.
nudity
There is rear nudity when a man and woman converse while lying naked in bed together. The man then lays his head on the woman's bare breasts.
additional issues
There are occasional verbal references to unsafe abortion practices. A brief scene shows a woman undergoing an abortion, without graphic visual detail. There are infrequent scenes of a woman in distress as she experiences epileptic seizures.
Classified Date:
13/12/1982
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Curzon Film Dists Ltd
Classified Date:
16/04/2008
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Channel 4 DVD
Classified Date:
25/11/1999
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Odyssey Video Ltd
Classified Date:
09/10/1997
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
First Independent Films Ltd
Classified Date:
04/11/1988
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Missing in Action
Classified Date:
14/02/2019
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
BFI Films
Paperwork Remarks:
Trailer
Classified Date:
13/10/1999
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Odyssey Video Ltd
Classified Date:
28/08/1997
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
First Independent Films Ltd
Classified Date:
07/07/1997
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
First Independent Films Ltd

  • Classified date

    05/02/2019

  • BBFC reference

    BFF036138

  • Language

    English