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Quartet (1981)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Quartet is the story of a girl who, adrift with her feckless husband amidst the literati of glittering Paris in the 1920s, becomes entrapped by a rich and sybaritic English couple. Adapted from the wistful, melancholy autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is full of intense confrontations dazzlingly acted by Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Anthony Higgins, and Isabelle Adjani. This is one of the Merchant Ivory team’s darkest and most compelling dramas of dangerously intertwined relationships.
Style:
costume drama, romantic drama, independent film, atmospheric, clever, serious, realistic, talky, stylized, gloomy ...
Plot:
couples, male pubic hair, hotel, prison, dancing, theft, love triangle, womanizer, jazz, infidelity, lifestyle, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, performer's life, couple relations, destructive relationship, mistress, church, zoo, nightclub, older man younger woman relationship, cafe, husband wife relationship, decadence ...
Time:
1920s, year 1981, 20s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Duration: 130 min.
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Audience:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: France, Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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