2012 · drama · comedy · romance
Quartet
Directed by Dustin Hoffman1h 38m2012
Cissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean, who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva, but she refuses to sing. Still, the show must go on, and it does.
Our read: Quartet (2012) reads as a cosy, measured, grounded drama · comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, measured, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- measured
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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