![]() ![]() Fiennes sings like Gielgud, roils like Olivier, lends lines a mocking undercurrent like Ben Kingsley, and imbues it all with a world-weary grandeur that is very Ralph Fiennes. “In his beautifully grave way… Fiennes delivers the Four Quartets as if the entire 16-poem suite were a single fractured Shakespearean monologue, lucid and searching, scorching and incantatory, all revolving around the desire to know. This celebrated meditation on human experience, time, and the divine offers up questions, imagery, and emotions that bear a powerful relevance to our present day. Written by Nobel Prize winner Eliot in the shadow of the Second World War, the poem is a searching examination of who and what ‚ we are. ![]() During the early days of COVID, the Oscar nominee set himself the challenge of committing the Four Quartets to memory, and in 2021 he brought it to the London stage followed by a tour of theaters across the UK. Eliot’s poetic masterpiece is dynamically translated from stage to screen by director Sophie Fiennes. Ralph Fiennes’s exquisite performance of T. ![]()
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