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DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 24, 2004
• R2: 1 Mar 2004
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 41 minutes
Country UK, France
Studio Franco London Films, Gaumont, Lyric International, Merchant Ivory Productions
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Other Titles
• Quartet
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Prison, Suspense, Period Piece, Infidelity
Plot: 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.
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James Ivory
The Remains of the Day, A Room with a View, Howards End |
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