A Passage to India (1984)
Directed by David Lean
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
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But if you hanker after distaff questers who are truly hot for God or wisdom or something that passes for transformative experience, buy a ticket to travel instead with Adela Quested ( Judy Davis ) in " A Passage to India " ... or Kate Winslet 's "goddess" in " Holy Smoke " ... or Nicole Kidman 's dreamer in " The Portrait of a Lady " ... or Patricia Arquette 's Red Cross Knight in the mythic " Beyond Rangoon ."
All of this is presented against a massive backdrop that harkens back to the days when director David Lean was making epics like “A Passage to India.”
On the other, the "Masterpiece Theater"-style images of " A Passage to India ," " Gandhi " and "The Jewel in the Crown."
In Forster's "A Passage to India," it was the Indians; in "A Room With a View," the Italians; here it is the help.