Quartet (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 10 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 24, 2019
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: Cohen Media Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Isabelle Adjani, Alan Bates, Maggie Smith & Anthony Higgins | |
Performer: | Sheila Gish, Bernice Stegers, Muriel Montossé & Daniel Mesguich | |
Directed by | James Ivory | |
Edited by | Humphrey Dixon | |
Screenplay by | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | |
Original story by | Jean Rhys | |
Composition by | Richard Robbins | |
Produced by | Ismail Merchant & Jean-Pierre Mahot | |
Director of Photography: | Pierre Lhomme |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1981 -
Best Actress: Isabelle Adjani
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 7/10 --
It's nasty-hearted in a way we don't tend to think of Merchant Ivory films as being, but that's one of its strengths.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
''Quartet'' is handsome but, ultimately, weightless.
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New York Times
Quartet itself adopts the characteristics of the life which it celebrates -- elegant, reticent, with a deep respect for cinematic conventions and for the life of surfaces.
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The Spectator
Rating: 3/5 --
Not as successful or lauded as Ivory's later EM Forster adaptations, A Room with a View and Howards End, but it's worth a look nevertheless.
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Radio Times
Ivory's interest is focused so completely on the period clothes and decor that the drama never surfaces.
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Chicago Reader
The direction, intimate yet retaining a sense of distance, is true both to Rhys and to Ivory.
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Time Out
Rating: 2/4 --
Adjani somehow won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for her deer-in-headlights performance, although it's Smith who best conveys the desperation of her character.
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Film Frenzy
Product Description:
Director James Ivory brings the bohemian Paris neighborhood of Montparnasse in the 1920s to life in this film based on the novel by Jean Rhys. Isabelle Adjani stars as Marya Zelli, a beautiful young wife who finds herself destitute after her art dealer husband is sent to prison for theft. A rich patron, H.J. Heidler (Alan Bates), and his painter wife, Lois (Maggie Smith), offer to take Marya in. Heidler, a womanizing ogre with a history of taking advantage of helpless young women, soon seduces Marya while Lois painfully accepts his philandering ways. Rhys based her novel on her own experiences as a young woman in Paris after her husband was sent to jail. The writer Ford Madox Ford, who promised to help the young novelist with her writing, befriended Rhys. He and his artist wife, Stella, took her in and Rhys became Ford's lover. However, as QUARTET reveals, there was no easy resolution to Rhys's or Marya's predicament.