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T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

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Ralph Fiennes's exquisite performance of T. S. Eliot's poetic masterpiece is dynamically translated from stage to screen by director Sophie Fiennes (Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, The Pervert's Guide to Ideology). During the early days of COVID, the Oscar® nominee set himself the challenge of committing Four Quartets to memory, and in 2021 he brought it to the London stage followed by a tour of theaters across the UK. Written by Nobel Prize winner Eliot in the shadow of the Second World War, the poem is a searching examination of who -- and what -- we are. This celebrated meditation on human experience, time, and the divine offers up questions, imagery, and emotions that bear a powerful relevance to our present day.
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Nell Minow RogerEbert.com 05/26/2023
3.5/4
A meditation on time, loss, and connection, and almost a century later, those themes are just as vital as they were when Eliot wrote them. Go to Full Review Robert Abele Los Angeles Times 05/25/2023
Four Quartets is a multi-course feast of concentrated flavors: mesmerizing language, masterly invocation, and the kind of poetic imagery that in the hands of a great actor feels like a direct line from Eliot’s pen to our mind’s landscape. Go to Full Review Teo Bugbee New York Times 04/27/2023
Fiennes brings the fire, yet the air around him remains unmoved, even by his embers. Go to Full Review Alex Heeney Seventh Row 07/31/2023
Four Quartets is neither live theatre capture nor a full adaptation of the play. Instead, Fiennes remarkably documents the theatre production on screen, maintaining all the original lighting and blocking. Go to Full Review Manuel Betancourt FilmWeek (LAist) 06/06/2023
It's really engrossing if poetry read on stage is your thing. Go to Full Review Calan Panchoo Film Threat 05/03/2023
8/10
For those who can gather the patience, it is a reminder of the wisdom Eliot so treasured, with all its overt Christian inspiration, birthed with such difficulty in the fires of war. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Ralph Fiennes's exquisite performance of T. S. Eliot's poetic masterpiece is dynamically translated from stage to screen by director Sophie Fiennes (Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, The Pervert's Guide to Ideology). During the early days of COVID, the Oscar® nominee set himself the challenge of committing Four Quartets to memory, and in 2021 he brought it to the London stage followed by a tour of theaters across the UK. Written by Nobel Prize winner Eliot in the shadow of the Second World War, the poem is a searching examination of who -- and what -- we are. This celebrated meditation on human experience, time, and the divine offers up questions, imagery, and emotions that bear a powerful relevance to our present day.
Director
Sophie Fiennes
Producer
Sophie Fiennes, Ralph Fiennes, Martin Rosenbaum, Shani Hinton
Distributor
Kino Lorber
Production Co
West End Films
Genre
Drama, History
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 28, 2023, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA)
$12.5K
Runtime
1h 24m
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