Four Quartets

Name: Four Quartets
Genre: Drama
Released: April 28, 2023
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Ralph Fiennes

2023

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: April 28, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Ralph Fiennes

Summary: During the early days of COVID, Ralph Fiennes set himself the challenge of committing T. S. Eliot's 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 – andDuring the early days of COVID, Ralph Fiennes set himself the challenge of committing T. S. Eliot's 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.… Expand

Director: Sophie Fiennes

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 84 min

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RogerEbert.com Nell Minow

May 26, 2023

For those who are open to its challenges, it is 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. Read full review

Calan Panchoo

May 4, 2023

Four Quartets is a special experience. Read full review

Robert Abele

May 25, 2023

Unabashedly theatrical in presentation but broken up with interludes of nature, this 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. Read full review

The Film Stage Dan Mecca

May 2, 2023

Both Fiennes siblings are smart to never get in the way of Eliot’s words. By simply putting them in front of us and adding some air underneath, the film becomes a piece all its own, made for now. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

May 2, 2023

Fiennes, in his beautifully grave way, slows the poem down for us, speaking the words with rapt deliberation, so that we live in their moment. Read full review

Teo Bugbee

May 2, 2023

Fiennes brings the fire, yet the air around him remains unmoved, even by his embers. Read full review

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