Review of Quartet (1981) by Robert Abele for Los Angeles Times — 24 Jan 1993
Whether the arc of Marya’s fate feels overly engineered to you or not, Quartet retains its power to unsettle in its accumulation of cuts and bruises, the rare Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala effort that mines a glamorized past not for nuanced dignity but for a kind of elegant, honest sordidness.
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This review of Quartet (1981) was written by Robert Abele and published by Los Angeles Times on 24 Jan 1993.
Quartet has generally received mixed reviews.
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