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Let's discuss the film Quartet. After her husband is arrested, a beautiful young girl is taken in by a wealthy middle aged couple in 1920's Paris. Soon, the husband and the girl have an affair much to the wife's envy.
Directed by James Ivory
Produced by Ismail Merchant
Written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Based on the novel by Jean Rhys
Music by Mischa Levitzki and Charles Gounod; Arranged by Richard Robbins
Starring Alan Bates, Isabella Adjani, Anthony Higgins, and Maggie Smith
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 1, 2025 1:17 PM |
Classy and elegant film
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 13, 2022 3:23 PM |
Isabella Adjani
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 13, 2022 3:33 PM |
R3 Just a typo. Chill out.
R2 Really? Maggie Smith and Alan Bates are great in this!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 13, 2022 4:17 PM |
Oh my, a Merchant Ivory film I was unaware of.
Thanks OP!
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 13, 2022 4:37 PM |
R5 You are welcome! It is playing on Kanopy
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 13, 2022 4:57 PM |
Isabelle won Best Actress at Cannes in 1981 for this along with Possession
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 13, 2022 5:01 PM |
R7 she is a good actress!
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 13, 2022 5:11 PM |
Alan Bates and Maggie Smith are the best
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 14, 2022 1:17 AM |
Didn't Marya (Adjani) have any relatives she could go stay with, when her husband was in jail? Or, couldn't she just have gone back to the chorus? Why move in with these perverts?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 31, 2025 3:58 PM |
I get this movie mixed up with The Comfort of Strangers, which (I think) is also about innocence corrupted in Europe.
I’ve never wanted to see either of them.
Isabelle Adjani occasionally annoys me as an actress. It’s as if her face can’t move.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 31, 2025 4:21 PM |
Adjani is very beautiful, but not much in the acting department. I did think she did well with Camille Claudel.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 31, 2025 7:33 PM |
French actresses like Adjani, Deneuve, and Huppert can be so unruffled and chicly detached that you wonder if they’re deaf.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 1, 2025 1:48 AM |
Sounds breeder tedious.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 1, 2025 9:32 AM |
The father of DL faves Samuel and Arthur Chatto shows up for the fun. Daniel was quite twinkalicious in Quartet.
I love this messy movie, and its even messier source novelist, Jean Rhys.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 1, 2025 1:17 PM |
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