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Time Out says

Strip away our veneer of civilisation, cast a dispassionate eye on our frantic attempts to gratify ourselves, and what do you find? You guessed. Ivory's earlier made-in-India movies got by on their 'delicacy' and 'sensitivity'; but this half-assed fable - about a bunch of jungle primitives turning, when a croquet ball mysteriously intrudes on their human sacrifice, into '30s socialites and then reverting back again - exposed the pseud beneath the aesthete. No wit, no thought, no surrealist flair, just vacuous decoration. It plays like a Ken Russell movie worked over by a taxidermist.
Written by TR

Release Details

  • Duration:106 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:James Ivory
  • Screenwriter:George Swift Trow, Michael O'Donoghue
  • Cast:
    • Louis Stadlen
    • Anne Francine
    • Thayer David
    • Susan Blakely
    • Russ Thacker
    • Salome Jens
    • Kathleen Widdoes
    • Sam Waterston
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