
Cissy (Pauline Collins), Reggie (Sir Tom Courtenay), and Wilf (Sir Billy Connolly) are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, on October 10, there is a concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean (Dame Maggie Smith), 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.... (Full plot summary below)
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Cissy (Pauline Collins), Reggie (Sir Tom Courtenay), and Wilf (Sir Billy Connolly) are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, on October 10, there is a concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean (Dame Maggie Smith), 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.
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| CinemalogueTodd JorgensonIt's a modest crowd-pleaser with a sterling cast of British veterans that celebrates performers past and present. |
| Seven DaysRick KisonakThe point isn't that Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut suffers in comparison with other films about old age, such as Amour. The point is that it's so spectacularly silly and sentimental, it simply suffers in comparison with other films. |
| Washington ExaminerKelly Jane TorranceThese are familiar themes: aging, jealousy, regret, repentance. But the dialogue is sprightly, and so are the performers. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchSarah Bryan MillerThey have the perfect supporting cast, made up of a group of exceptional real-life musicians: retired members of orchestras and opera companies, and a pianist bristling with the suppressed impatience of the longtime accompanist. (To see who they are, stick around for the credits.) |
| ObserverRex ReedThe result is a movie of enormous intelligence. |
| Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)John WirtAs the film's characters are reaching the end of their lives, loose ends will be tied and soul searching will be done. Hoffman gracefully orchestrates the story's emotional arc. Quartet is a lovely late-career surprise from a master actor. |
| Video-Reviewmaster.comSteve CrumWhile 'Quartet' seems to be part of a double feature with 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,' it does lack 'Exotic's' breadth of characterizations and humor. |
| Film.comJordan Hoffman"Quartet" is polite enough to be short, I'll give it that much. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfThis is a lovely picture with welcome heart, allowing Hoffman to take to directing without sacrificing his thirst for human study, shaped over the last five decades of his own work. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaAnd that, in the end, is what Quartet is about: determined engagement, embracing music and theater and the arts, and embracing the friends and loved ones you have around you. |