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It (has been*! s*a]=id that most gre`!:at , \twen\ tieth ce;[$nt?ur%+y novels include .s `c,)en+.es in a@; hotel, a symptom o:]f _!t] he va $s;t ; upro)[ oting that ] ha/#s occ_ urred i,?n the last century: James Ivory begin!^#s Quartet wi(^th- a [montage of the hotels] (#, of *Mon%tparna:sse , %_a. quie,t prelu.de =:bef^ ore our introd#]_uc#.-t]ion t*__:o the violen!^tly l =]os$,[ t souls who inhabi-! t t]hem. Adap te!=d )fro m the 1928 a!^utobiographic:^al novel by) Jean Rhys, Quartet is/ the story of a lo@ve quad# .:ran*=gle betwe@]*en a complicate:=.d young West Ind;./ian w_oman: na:med Marya:] @ (played by Isabelle Adjani),# her husband/ Stefan (A- /nth-[@[on ;y Higgin=s)%, a manipulative Engli_sh /a?,`rt [ patron =%named Heidler? (Alan Bates), and his p%;ainter wife!@) :^?#Lois (Mag?:gie S mith).] Th@e film)) is set/\ in th[=`$e: ,,`G* `olden A+^ge of @P$aris, Hemingway's "moveable f e.,%a[*s-t^]" o* +f` cafe cultu re and e)xtravaga%+nt % n:ight#,life, glitter and ?^)=l%@it;$erati: yet u_ndern!eath is th,e outline of some thing sini$;ster -beneath the polished brasses *and b@r =] =asser.ies. W;hen Mary* ]]a's husband i)`\s put in a Paris priso(n on c,[har@:.g_e^`s of selling stolen+- art; wor:[ k(s, % %she is lef-=t[_ indigent and is/ t$ake*($[n in by Heidler and@!# his w,$ife: the predatory=_ English=[man ;`(whose charact:?er Rhys bases on the no _veli() st .*Fo^\%!rd Mad: =ox Ford) is quick to ta .ke(; advanta-ge of the new living arrange#^ment, a[n^-d Marya- fin?:*]ds he ];rself in a st-r(an/gleh/old ,)betwe!en hus; _-band and w,.*if.`e. Lov;e rs alt ernat((ely gravitate towa=)rd a/%;nd are rep(elled by eac#,)h ot,her, now pr+ @of ess@ ]in%*) g their lo__ve, = #)now) conf(%*:essing th ei_)+:[r bru_[t[%al indi+fference --\ all the ?whi:)le kee ;p ing up\ a !ppear[)ance s. The= fi)?lm(( e[xplores the\; v+ast territory between the &q;$uot!`+nice&q]uo!^t and;@/ the &quo%/%tgo,$od," betw@*[een )- outwa*rd refinem #en-@\\t and [email protected]%\er darkness: after *:o+ne ^[viole?nt episode[, ,Lois asks Marya% n`:ot to speak o#[f= it to the Paris crow!(d. &quo\[tIs that^= all you're worrie,`d +_)abou@$t/);?/-;" demands +[an(] outr-_aged Marya. "[,!Yes,&q+uot Lois replies with icy c]*and%or, "@as a ma#t.@!t\%er of*^ ;+ f=act + =." ] Adjan*^i won the; Be[_st Ac %tress award at Can/$nes for h@*:er performa ]nces+ in Qu@-.a$r =.+=tet: her Marya is$!@ a volatile compound of French schoolgirl and scorned mis=`.*t r-(es:s, veer ing be`tween tremulous joy and -`)h.ysterical outburst. Smith=: s,,-$hines i`%#n on[%=e @%o;f her m*?o#+st mem ,orable roles: she imbu .es Lo is w?[ith a K]at$+h= `@e,/rin[ =e-o:f-Ara*?gon `imp,*oten*t r age, ]as% humil iated *as #she is p \=o ](=wer!/%)less in$.#$ the fa;)ce of her \@: husban)d=,]9s, -`ch: o\-ic@]es; . He]r interac__=tio]+ ns with Bates are scenes from a marr`i)(%%age tha_t ha.s moved from disillusionment to pa\le acc$ eptance. /. Ruth Prawer #\,Jh!.abvala and ?$Ja:me(s Ivory&]#39s screenplay u@%;s$!/!es Rhys#39s novel as] _ ,\=a foundati [on%+ from which i! t c[ ;onstru/%cts a world tha. ?.t#! ) (+@is bot$h true to the[# novel , and d;is,tinctive in its own right, painti-;ng a society`/ tha $#t has l@ost its inhibiti on/,s and inadvert.=ently lo-\s t it/#s soul-. We a[[[re taken to -)mirrored )cafes, then mov-)e% through) the .looking( ?[glass: Mar=^::y%a, ?( in $one sc-ene, + is offe.red a job)* ! as$ / #a m[]odel !=%!and +(then finds her` sel f:!= in a sad#_omasochistic por:,nogra/pher-39s ,st=` u)$ d^/io.$ The fil_]m,/ a:s photographed by Pier.:re Lhomme, creates thoroughly cin?e mati/_c [,.moments; t# hat Rhy's novel co ul,-],d [ no=t ha*ve attempted: /$(in one of the Ivory's most /:!m_+ emor$able sce,nes, a b@lack(+ American` chanteu[$se (extraordin-arily played b !y[[ Armelia [:McQueen) ent,?#[ertains Parisian patro;\=ns with a bi::g and,= brassy jazz+ s?ong, neither subtle nor elegant. Ivory keep#\s,;_ th@$e c^amera on th(^e sin/$ger's act /: there is something * ; ^in he*r ungua,[#rded smile tha@t makes )#,t h\(e danger beneath+ Montparnasse ma,nners seem +$!/more acute.