Directed by:
James IvoryScreenplay:
Ruth Prawer JhabvalaCinematography:
Pierre LhommeComposer:
Richard RobbinsCast:
Isabelle Adjani, Anthony Higgins, Maggie Smith, Suzanne Flon, Alan Bates, Daniel Mesguich, Bernice Stegers, Pierre Clémenti, Serge Marquand, Muriel Montossé (more)Plots(1)
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. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Isabelle Adjani
France
Best movies:
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) - a.f.
The Tenant (1976)
One Deadly Summer (1983)
Anthony Higgins
UK
Best movies:
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
Maggie Smith
UK
Best movies:
Suzanne Flon
France
Best movies:
No Time for Breakfast (1976)
Un amour de pluie (1974)
The Train (1964)
Alan Bates
UK
Best movies:
The Rose (1979)
Alexis Zorbas (1964)
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
Daniel Mesguich
Algeria
Best movies:
L'Allée du roi (1996) (series)
L'Affaire Salengro (2009) (TV movie)
L'Affaire Dreyfus (1994) (series)
Bernice Stegers
UK
Best movies:
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Suite Française (2014)
Pierre Clémenti
France
Best movies:
Ninì Tirabusciò: la donna che inventò la mossa (1970)
Belle de Jour (1967)
The Leopard (1963)
Serge Marquand
France
Best movies:
The Count of Monte Cristo (1998) (series)
The Fighting Musketeers (1961)
The Sleeping Car Murders (1965)
Muriel Montossé
France
Best movies:
Série noire (1984) (series)
Hothead (1979)
Cecilia (1982)
Virginie Thévenet
France
Best movies:
Small Change (1976)
Full Moon in Paris (1984)
The Cry of the Owl (1987)
Sébastien Floche
Best movies:
The Man from Acapulco (1973)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Incorrigible (1975)
François Viaur
France
Best movies:
Amelie (2001)
The Wing and the Thigh (1976)
The Tenant (1976)
Michel Such
France
Best movies:
The Inquisitor (1981)
Les Risques du métier (1967)
The Best Way to Walk (1976)
Josine Comellas
France
Best movies:
Édith et Marcel (1983)
Tess (1979)
Quartet (1981)
Humbert Balsan
France
Best movies:
The Adversary (2002)
Noroît (1976)
Merry-Go-Round (1981)
Sheila Gish
UK
Best movies:
Jonathan Creek (1997) (series)
Highlander (1986)
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
Pierre Julien
France
Best movies:
The Telephone Always Rings Twice (1985)
Série noire (1984) (series)
Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
Monique Mauclair
Best movies:
My American Uncle (1980)
Maigret (1991) (series)
Quartet (1981)
Jeffrey Kime
UK
Best movies:
Bolero (1981)
The Bunker (1981) (TV movie)
The State of Things (1982)