SummaryDuring 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 – ... Read More
Directed By:Sophie Fiennes
Written By:T.S. Eliot
Four Quartets
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May 26, 2023
88
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.
May 25, 2023
80
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.
May 2, 2023
75
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.
May 2, 2023
70
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.
May 2, 2023
50
Fiennes brings the fire, yet the air around him remains unmoved, even by his embers.
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