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Merchant Ivory

Merchant Ivory

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 30, 2024

Runtime

1h 51m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

Merchant Ivory

Production Companies

Modernist Film, Cohen Media Group

Director

Stephen Soucy

Budget

$600,000

Description

The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and their primary associates, writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and composer Richard Robbins. Footage from more than fifty interviews, clips, and archival material gives voice to the family of actors and technicians who helped define Merchant Ivory’s Academy Award-winning work of consummate quality and intelligence. With six Oscar winners among the notable artists participating, these close and often long-term collaborators intimately detail the transformational cinematic creativity and personal and professional drama of the wandering company that left an indelible impact on film culture.