If you’re looking for a weekend watch, you might want to consider checking out Quartet on Prime Video before it leaves the streaming service very soon. The 2012 British drama follows the residents of Beecham House, a retirement home for former professional musicians and opera singers.
An adaptation of the West End play of the same name by Ronald Harwood, Quartet marked Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut. Its impressive cast included Maggie Smith, Sheridan Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins.
Quartet was praised by Paste Magazine for being “as brilliant and lovingly composed as the operatic pieces that soar through the background”, with them adding that you’ll be “longing for an encore”.
You don’t have too much longer to fit in an encore though as Quartet is leaving Prime Video in seven days, or on Friday 30 January if you’re reading this story over the weekend.
If you miss out before it’s removed or you’re not a Prime Video subscriber, the movie is also available to watch right now on Sky Cinema and NOW (with a Cinema membership), with no confirmed date for its removal from that streaming service.
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Back when the movie was released, Digital Spy described Quartet as “a cosy comfort blanket of a film” with “stand-out performances”, particularly from Maggie Smith, honing her patented withering stare for Jean, and Connolly’s Wilf.
Speaking on the making of the film alongside “acting royalty”, Sheridan Smith told Digital Spy that being on set felt “really spontaneous and magical”, with the cast jamming when cameras weren’t rolling.
“There was such a great atmosphere on set that a lot of the stuff in the film is genuine outtakes and laughter. It was all really spontaneous and magical. He’s really captured that in the movie,” she recalled.
Quartet is being removed from Prime Video on 30 January. It is also available to watch on Sky Cinema and NOW (with Cinema membership).
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