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Quartet
Directed by
James Ivory
R
1981
1h 41m
Drama
,
Romance
6.2
44%
32%
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Finding herself penniless after her art-dealer husband Stephan is convicted of theft, Marya Zelli accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who let her live in their home.
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Cast of Quartet
Isabelle Adjani
Marya 'Mado' Zelli
Maggie Smith
Lois Heidler
Alan Bates
H.J. Heidler
Anthony Higgins
Stephan Zelli
Suzanne Flon
Mme. Hautchamp
Sheila Gish
Anna
Daniel Chatto
Guy
Pierre Clémenti
Theo
Daniel Mesguich
Pierre Schlamovitz
Armelia McQueen
Nightclub singer
Wiley Wood
Cairn
Virginie Thévenet
Madmoiselle Chardin
Muriel Montossé
Marjorie
Hélène Shirley
Adriana
Caroline Loeb
Nun
Arlette Spetebroot
Drowned Girl
Josine Comellas
Café Patronne
Monique Mauclair
Hotel Concierge
Sébastien Floche
Edouard
Paulita Sedgwick
Esther
Bernice Stegers
Miss Nicholson
Isabelle Canto da Maya
Cri-Cri
François Viaur
Lefranc
Dino Zanghi
Prison Guard
Michel Such
Prison Guard
Jean-Pierre Dravel
Prison Guard
Annie Noël
Maid
Maurice Ribot
Pianist
Pierre Julien
Impresario
Humbert Balsan
Impresario's Friend
Serge Marquand
Night Club Owner
Jeffrey Kime
James
Hélène Shirley
Adriana
Anne-Marie Brissonière
Les Oiseaux
Marie-France De Bourges
Les Oiseaux
Brigitte Hermetz
Les Oiseaux
Romain Brémond
Youth
Bonnafet Tarbouriech
Prison Guard (uncredited)
Quartet Ratings & Reviews
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
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.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
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.
TV Guide
TV Guide Staff
Ivory's dispassionate direction precludes real involvement with the characters, resulting in a peculiarly austere depiction of a colorful era.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Frankly, you'll find much better works from the Merchant-Ivory collection.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
"Quartet" retains its power to unsettle in its accumulation of cuts and bruises, the rare Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala effort that mines a glamorized past not for nuanced dignity but for a kind of elegant, honest sordidness.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Ivory's interest is focused so completely on the period clothes and decor that the drama never surfaces.
Variety
Variety Staff
Ivory takes his usual aloofly observant distance and the film's love triangle loses some drastic impetus.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
''Quartet'' is handsome but, ultimately, weightless.
Philadelphia Gay News
Rich Grzesiak
The final scene confirms, I think, the weakness of the cinema artist who must rely on vision where the writer would add depth.
Hyperallergic
Beatrice Loayza
This unique Merchant-Ivory production is a forlorn reminder of the Kafkaesque entrapments that society fashions for women.
The CriterionCast
Joshua Brunsting
More or less a romance picture, Quartet is a taut, tense and breathtaking tale of deception and power dynamics, a costume drama with the energy of something more erotic.
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