Quartet (2012)
| Movie | |
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| German title | quartet |
| Original title | Quartet |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Dustin Hoffman |
| script | Ronald Harwood |
| production |
Finola Dwyer Amanda Posey Stewart Mackinnon |
| music | Dario Marianelli |
| camera | John de Borman |
| cut | Barney Pilling |
| occupation | |
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Quartet (Original title: Quartet ) is a British feature film from 2012, which was directed by the actor Dustin Hoffman for the first time. Based on a play by Ronald Harwood , it tells the story of old musicians who save their old people's home from financial ruin through a gala. The film opened in German cinemas on January 24, 2013.
action
Cissy, Reg and Wilf are retired opera singers who live in Beecham House , a private retirement home for professional musicians. The home is located in a very spacious English country house with a large, well-tended garden, once built as the seat of a noble family. Every year the residents celebrate Giuseppe Verdi's birthday with a public benefit gala. Shortly before such a gala (this time it is particularly important because without the income the continued existence of the home would be very uncertain) Jean Horton, once a celebrated opera star, moves into the home. Her former husband Reg did not know about it and is shocked that he will be confronted with this failed relationship again.
The four of them once sang the quartet from Act 3 of Rigoletto in the opera , a musical highlight that has been preserved on sound carriers. When the plan arises that the four should appear together at the gala with this Verdi work, because this would attract additional visitors, Jean initially refuses. Only when she was suggested that if she wasn't singing, her former rival Ann Langley would win the final applause, did she change her mind. Before the gala there are still some incidents and arguments, with old rivalries being carried out with theatrical temperament. Until the end it is not clear whether the quartet will actually perform.
Reviews
"Dustin Hoffman gives the actors plenty of room to unfold and tells a pleasantly calm comedic story that is pleasantly entertaining, but yet too superficially skips over all conflict points and problems of old age."
Details
The recordings were made in autumn 2011 at Hedsor House in Buckinghamshire . The film was shown for the first time in September 2012 at a film festival in Toronto and has been shown in the UK since January 1, 2013 and in the US since January 11, 2013 .
The film sensitively portrays the individually quirky seniors of this age seat and cleverly and humorously weaves the aspects of aging (not feeling old, forgetfulness, mental and physical ailments, death) into the plot. The film is criss-crossed by music (making music, playing records, singing, music lessons), which the residents - as former singers and musicians - produce on the side in everyday life and in preparation for the gala.
In addition to the full-time actors, top-class professional musicians also took part as actors, such as the world-famous soprano Dame Gwyneth Jones (as Ann Langley) or the longtime solo clarinetist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra , Colin Bradbury (as Olly Fisher).
The work is very similar to the French fictional evening of 1939.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for quartet . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2013 (PDF; test number: 136 811 K).
- ↑ Quartet. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ "Colin Bradbury