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Quartet is a 1981 historical drama film directed by James Ivory from a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, based on the 1928 novel of the same name by Jean Rhys. The film stars Alan Bates , Maggie Smith , Isabelle Adjani and Anthony Higgins , and is set in 1927 Paris.
The original trailer in high definition of Quartet directed by James Ivory and starring Isabelle Adjani, Alan Bates, Suzanne Flon and Maggie Smith.
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In bohemian 1920s Paris, young writer Marya finds herself destitute when her art dealer husband Stephan is imprisoned. Rich art patron Heidler and his artist wife Lois offer to take Marya in for the duration of Stephan’s sentence.
Starring Isabelle Adjani, Alan Bates and Maggie Smith, "Quartet" is a stellar, if less known, entry in the Ismael-James Ivory-Ruth Prawer Jhabvala canon.
Marya (Isabelle Adjani), a former chorus girl of humble origins, is gleefully living it up in the decadence of 1920s Paris until Stephan (Anthony Higgins), her art dealer husband, is convicted of...
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- Isabelle Adjani
The gorgeous Isabelle Adjani stars as Marya, a submissive Parisian whose husband, Stephan (The Draughtsman's Contract's Anthony Higgins), is jailed for art fraud. During visits to prison, she is encouraged to survive at any cost and decides to take up with older society staples H.J. and Lois Heidler (Alan Bates and Maggie Smith), whose open ...
Adapted from the 1928 autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is the story of a love quadrangle between a complicated young West Indian woman named Marya (played by Isabelle Adjani), her husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins), a manipulative English art patron named Heidler (Alan Bates), and his painter wife Lois (Maggie Smith).
