{"id":488,"date":"2014-07-20T17:54:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T17:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=488"},"modified":"2024-03-03T16:52:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T21:52:20","slug":"quartet-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Quartet- 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quartet-2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director Dustin Hoffman<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott’s Review #122<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reviewed July 20, 2014<\/p>\n

Grade: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quartet (2012) is a fantastic little British film, directed by Dustin Hoffman, and starring the always wonderful Maggie Smith, whom one might argue could be watched in anything.<\/p>\n

I certainly could.<\/p>\n

Smith stars as a stubborn retired opera singer who begrudgingly settles in at Beecham House, a luxurious senior retirement home for former musicians in their final years.<\/p>\n

There she reunites with colleagues from years past who attempt to reunite for a concert for the public to save the home from foreclosure.<\/p>\n

The cast of senior citizens in Quartet is quite likable in one of the few smart films handling aging gracefully.<\/p>\n

There is comedy and drama mixed in as the intelligent characters are treated as such in their final years with a hint of soap opera to the film as some of them were intimate with others in years past and the current hijinks are hysterical.<\/p>\n

The subject of aging is treated with respect and dignity and not played for laughs, which is one aspect of the film that I adore.<\/p>\n

A talent-filled cast of British theater actors, along with some real-life musicians make this film a treat.<\/p>\n

It is terrific to see Pauline Collins (Upstairs\/Downstairs) in a large role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quartet-2012 Director Dustin Hoffman Starring Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay Scott’s Review #122 Reviewed July 20, 2014 Grade: B+ Quartet (2012) is a fantastic little British film, directed by Dustin Hoffman, and starring the always wonderful Maggie Smith, whom one might argue could be watched in anything. I certainly could. Smith stars as a stubborn retired … Continue reading Quartet- 2012<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,440,49,192,796,41,215,211,704,3678,2471],"tags":[75,441,252,193,798,73,216,212,709,3679,2472],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-films","category-british-films","category-comedies","category-dramas","category-dustin-hoffman","category-indiefilms","category-indie-comedies","category-indie-dramas","category-maggie-smith","category-pauline-collins","category-tom-courtenay","tag-2012-movie-reviews","tag-british-films","tag-comedies","tag-dramas-2","tag-dustin-hoffman","tag-independent-films","tag-indie-comedies","tag-indie-dramas","tag-maggie-smith","tag-pauline-collins","tag-tom-courtenay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19987,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/19987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}