Quintet

Quintet (1979)

  • 13% of critics liked it
    (8 reviews)

  • 32% of users liked it
    (528 ratings)

Perhaps the least seen but most talked about film of Robert Altman's career, Quintet is a somber science fiction tale that takes place after a nuclear holocaust has thrown the world into another Ice Age. A man named Essex (Paul Newman) and his pregnant wife Vivia (Brigitte Fossey) are wandering… More

In Theaters
Jan 1, 1979 Wide
Fox

Critic Reviews

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

    All great directors must be arrogant to the extent that they will follow their dreams through to the bitter, sometimes banal end. This time Mr. Altman's faith in himself has led him over the brink.

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    The narrative is convoluted, the characters thin, and the pace appropriately glacial; burdened with opaque metaphysical dialogue and bizarre, medieval-looking costumes.

  • Chuck O'Leary, FulvueDrive-in.com

    The pace of Quintet is as glacial as its setting. A career nadir for Paul Newman.

  • Bill Chambers, Film Freak Central

    A baffling film whose ultimately hollow idiosyncrasies speak to Altman's self-destructive streak more than they constitute an applicable allegory

  • Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

    a painful attempt at depth that comes across as nothing more than utter pretentiousness

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Steven C


    It's hard for me to call Robert Altman's "Quintet" an out right terrible film because everything we see on screen seems entirely deliberate. From the slow pace, to the detailed production design, to the multiracial casting, to the etherial score, to the… More

  • Burger S


    This had to be one of the most boring Sci-Fi movies ever - and it had Paul Newman in it.

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