T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

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T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

2023

1h 24m

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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.

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.

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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.

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Teo Bugbee

New York Times

04/27/2023

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

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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.

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Manuel Betancourt

FilmWeek (LAist)

06/06/2023

It's really engrossing if poetry read on stage is your thing.

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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.

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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.

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