Quintet

When:
Friday, Jul 31, 2015 9:00p -
11:00p

Where:
The Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
24 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
$9.00 ($7.00 for students/members/seniors)

Categories:
Film, University

Event website:
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2015junaug/altman.html#quintet

Quintet


Directed by Robert Altman. With Paul Newman, Bibi Andersson, Fernando Rey
US 1979, 35mm, color, 118 min


A rare science fiction foray from Altman, Quintet is set in a future ice age where people in an otherwise barren society gather with religious zeal to play a mysterious board game that is suddenly transformed into a life-or-death struggle by corrupt, power-hungry officials. With beautifully dystopian winter vistas filmed in the Arctic Circle and on the site of Montreal’s former Expo ’67 complex, the all-encompassing alternate reality of Quintet offers no comfort or solace. However, it is the hopeless darkness that makes any sign of humanity shockingly foreign and blindingly bright and perhaps helps explain why Altman later remarked, regarding the film’s poor critical response, “I have this great optimism that always translates into pessimism.”

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