Quartet - The Merchant Ivory Collection
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Features
• Anamorphic
• DVD-Video
• NTSC
In Theaters : 25 October, 1981
DVD Release : 24 February, 2004 |
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Quartet - The Merchant Ivory Collection Customer Reviews
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AVOID AT ALL COST...
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Merchant-Ivory have never been more self-conscious or grasping for, for , what...a decent script by the usually capable Ruth Prawer Jhabvala? Here, she was either out-of-town - or completely overdosed on absinthe.
A more disastrous film one has not encountered in a very long while. Truly embarrassing for the astoundingly gifted Isabell Adjani - who, here, is reduced to whining, clownlishly awkward self-dubbing of her English. The late Alan Bates serves up a ridiculous performance as her paramour. Maggie Smith tries hard but comes up laughable. Anthony Higgins is the one source of interest in the entire thing - and yet has such little screen time that he is genuinely better off not being remembered as having appeared in this fiasco.
The liner notes proudly claim that they spent only 1.8 milion dollars on this 'event'.
I - or you - could have filmed this very small and lacklustre story for a tenth of these monies, and come up with something more real.
Avoid this at all costs... |
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