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The Three-Headed Magic of Merchant Ivory | Hazlitt

In their decades of collaboration, the company created films tethered in a new language for what it means to be a human of multiple descript

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“It is a strange marriage we have at Merchant Ivory. I am an Indian Muslim, Ruth is a German Jew, and Jim is a Protestant [by birth, actually Catholic] American. Someone once described us as a three-headed god. Maybe they should have called us a three-headed monster!”

By Fariha Róisín, 28 May 2018

I’ve posted/linked to this before, but this sensitive, precise and personal essay on Merchant–Ivory–Jhabvala’s unique three-headed, four-decade, collaboration remains an excellent read.

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