Four is a crowd

By Maria Gregoriou

On Monday Rio Cinema will go back to 1927 France with the film Quartet, starring Isabelle Adjani, Maggie Smith and Anthony Higgins.
Adapted from a novel by Jean Rhys by the same name, the film premiered at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

The plot involves Stephan, a shady Polish art dealer who is sent to prison for stealing art work, and his wife Marya, who finds herself penniless after he is convicted. The now destitute woman accepts to move into the home of HJ and Lois Heidler, a wealthy Englishman and his wife, a painter.

The only thing is HJ has a history of inviting young women to move into the spare room and his intentions are not all good.

As the title suggests, the film very closely looks at the lives of these four people and presents the viewer with character studies while telling the story.

Quartet
Screening of the 1981 drama. February 16. Rio Cinemas, 125 Ellados Street, Limassol. 8.15pm. Tel: 25-87 1410

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