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Quintet

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

A rare science fiction foray from Robert 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.

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