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Release Date:
25 October 1981 (USA) morePlot:
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
A complex film, the harsh fate of a young woman without resources in the twenties... moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Alan Bates | ... | H.J. Heidler |
 | Maggie Smith | ... | Lois Heidler |
 | Isabelle Adjani | ... | Marya Zelli |
 | Anthony Higgins | ... | Stephan Zelli |
| Pierre Clémenti | ... | Théo the Pornographer |
| Suzanne Flon | ... | Mme. Hautchamp |
| Daniel Mesguich | ... | Pierre Schlamovitz |
| Sheila Gish | ... | Anna |
| Armelia McQueen | ... | Night Club Singer |
| Wiley Wood | ... | Cairn |
| Virginie Thévenet | ... | Madmoiselle Chardin |
| Daniel Chatto | ... | Guy |
| Bernice Stegers | ... | Miss Nicholson |
| Paulita Sedgwick | ... | Esther |
| Sébastien Floche | ... | Edouard Hautchamp |
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USA:101 minColor:
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UK:18 (video rating) | UK:X (original rating) | Finland:K-16 | Singapore:M18 | Sweden:11 | USA:R | Ireland:18Filming Locations:
Paris, FranceMOVIEmeter: 
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The book written by Jean Rhys was originally titled "Postures" when it was published in London in 1928 by Chatto and Windus. When the U.S. publishers Simon and Schuster published it in the United States, the name was changed to "Quartet". moreSoundtrack:
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In the tradition of some Merchant/Ivory films...this one deals with very profound social realities for a young woman (Isabelle Adjani)in Paris in the 1920s whose husband is a thief, is jailed. She is left penniless and without means of support (has no working papers). A rather strange English couple (Maggie Smith and Alan Bates) offer her refuge...but at the price of seduction by the husband, tolerated by the artist wife, who is inordinately tied to him emotionally. The young woman's emotional and psychological state is thrown into almost unbearable ambivalance...Love for her husband whom she visits weekly in jail and the need for survival. The film's visual beauty, the lighting, the intensity of color, the evocation of the "jazz age", the cabarets, the authentic costuming, in addition to the splended acting and direction make this a film deserving of far more attention than it's received, in my opinion. A truly cinematic experience of significance.