Merchant Ivory – comprising producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory – were renowned for their stately period dramas following the forming of their production company in 1961, but the turbulent reality of their sets is at odds with the beautiful images they created on screen.
In this extraordinary new retrospective documentary, Merchant Ivory, director Stephen Soucy speaks with the filmmaking duo’s collaborators, from Helena Bonham Carter, to Emma Thompson, to Hugh Grant, about the making of their era-defining films.