Quintet

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueDuring a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called "Quintet." For one small group, this obsession is not enough; they play the game with livin... Tout lireDuring a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called "Quintet." For one small group, this obsession is not enough; they play the game with living pieces ... and only the winner survives.During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called "Quintet." For one small group, this obsession is not enough; they play the game with living pieces ... and only the winner survives.

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Récompenses
- 1 nomination au total

Anecdotes
To add realism, Robert Altman had all the sets kept at freezing temperatures. The slight impairment to the lips in extreme cold is noticeable when the actors speak.

Gaffes
Throughout the film, packs of wild Rottweilers are seen scavenging corpses. However, all of the dogs have their tails docked. Truly wild Rottweilers would still have their tails, since the docking of their tails is done to them when they are puppies, by human owners.

Citations
Grigor: ...and talk about life.
Essex: The only thing I've seen is death, or the prospect of it.
Grigor: But that's what makes life worthwhile; every time you cheat death, you feel the pure thrill of life

Crédits fous
Instead of fading to black before the film begins, the silent 20th Century Fox logo instead *dissolves* into the opening scene, that of a frozen wasteland in a heavy blizzard.

Connexions
Featured in Sneak Previews: The Brink's Job/Hardcore/The Warriors/Quintet/The Great Train Robbery (1979)

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2/10

The elements are there but the execution doesn't work!

Altman's Quintet has to be considered more than just flawed: As so many other reviewers have pointed out, the ideas behind the film, even some of the choices in depicting those ideas, ought to work--and yet very little in this difficult film does. The partially fogged camera lens--I remarked to my wife that it has to be the most distracting directorial conceit I've ever seen--never allowed me to get "into" the film's world.

In general there are serious problems with the mise-en-scene employed here. It's clear that no small amount of thought went into factors like costume and production design, but neither is very effective in evoking a believable world. Perhaps it is a matter of scale; the film is so stage-bound that I laughed out loud once it was mentioned that "five million" people lived in the city. (Yes I understand the constraints of the film's budget. Matte paintings here and there might have helped.) In all the most disappointing Altman film I've ever seen. Great ideas and grand metaphors do not always come through in art--it's just part of the game.