BIB_ID
456292
Accession number
MA 23840.1392
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
2 items (4 pages) ; 18.8 x 24.9 cm
Notes
Year from contents.
Written across 2 aerogrammes.
The film festival Jhabvala reports on is the 5th International FIlm Festival of Delhi, which ran from December 30, 1974 to January 12, 1975.
Aerogramme addressed to James Ivory / Apt. 12-G, 400 East 52nd St., New York, N.Y., 10022, U.S.A., postmarked January 24, 1975.
Written across 2 aerogrammes.
The film festival Jhabvala reports on is the 5th International FIlm Festival of Delhi, which ran from December 30, 1974 to January 12, 1975.
Aerogramme addressed to James Ivory / Apt. 12-G, 400 East 52nd St., New York, N.Y., 10022, U.S.A., postmarked January 24, 1975.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Expressing how she is "awfully glad" he didn't come for the "Film Festival" because it was "dreadful and a big scandal" and quoting reviews of it from "Illustrated Weekly"; commenting on how the only film she has seen since she returned from New York is "Dr. Zhivago" calling it "awful" and how the only recent film she has liked is "Zabriskie Point"; continuing to discuss the "backwash of the Film Festival" and comments made in the "Sunday Times" regarding the opulent food dishes at the receptions being juxtaposed by the "children begging at the doors of the hotel"; adding that it's "difficult to know what tone to take" so she will probably take none, which is a reason for increasingly tense relations between "Indians and Westerners" as the "chauvinism is getting more and more aggressive"
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