Cohen Media: New Restoraiton of James Ivory's Quartet Heading to Blu-ray
HomeCohen Media: New Restoraiton of James Ivory's Quartet Heading to Blu-ray
Posted August 16, 2019 05:16 AM by Webmaster
The Cohen Media Group will release on Blu-ray James Ivory's romantic drama Quartet (1981), starring Isabelle Adjani, Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Anthony Higgins, and Suzanne Flon. The release will be available for purchase on September 24.
Synopsis: A twisted relationship between a wealthy English couple and a young woman they take in, plays out against a stunning recreation of the Golden Age of 1920s Paris. In adapting Jean Rhys's 1928 autobiographical novel, Merchant Ivory achieved an artistic breakthrough that remains one of the team's finest works. In one of her greatest performances, Isabelle Adjani plays the vulnerable but complicated West-Indian Marya, who, after her shady husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins) is imprisoned, finds shelter in the home of a manipulative and lecherous English art patron (Alan Bates) and his painter wife (Maggie Smith). The dynamic between this trio is set against Hemingway's "moveable feast" of café culture and extravagant nightlife, glitter and literati, beneath which lie traces of something sinister.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Synopsis: A twisted relationship between a wealthy English couple and a young woman they take in, plays out against a stunning recreation of the Golden Age of 1920s Paris. In adapting Jean Rhys's 1928 autobiographical novel, Merchant Ivory achieved an artistic breakthrough that remains one of the team's finest works. In one of her greatest performances, Isabelle Adjani plays the vulnerable but complicated West-Indian Marya, who, after her shady husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins) is imprisoned, finds shelter in the home of a manipulative and lecherous English art patron (Alan Bates) and his painter wife (Maggie Smith). The dynamic between this trio is set against Hemingway's "moveable feast" of café culture and extravagant nightlife, glitter and literati, beneath which lie traces of something sinister.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW RESTORATION OF THE FILM
- NEW Conversation with James Ivory and cinematographer Pierre Lhomme
- The Making of Quartet: A Conversation with James Ivory
- Viva Cinema interview with James Ivory
- Conversations with the Filmmakers - Program
- Original trailer
- Restoration trailer
