Quartet
Director: Dustin Hoffman
Cast: Billy Connolly, Maggie Smith, Pauline Collins, Tom Courtenay
Year of Release: 2012
Running Time: 98 minutes
Quartet centres around a group of seniors who attempts to raise funds for Beecham House, a financially-plagued home for retired musicians, through their annual gala concert. The recital offers an opportunity for the once-famous opera quartet to reunite but the process of bringing everyone back together is fraught with old grudges and painful memories. Over a series of exchanges between the protagonists, misunderstandings are eventually resolved and the characters re-establish an emotional bond that enables them to put up a spectacular and memorable performance at the very end of the film.
Funny yet poignant, Quartet is a captivating story on reconciliation and forgiveness that will tug at your heartstrings.
Above review is contributed by Chu Wan Xin, National Library Board (NLB).
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