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I wonder if the ending should have shown the quartet performing rather than being heard off screen.
-- Monster
I interpreted the ending as letting the audience (us) hear the characters as they were in their youth or their imaginations. A little bit of fantasy. If we had actually seen the real performance, their voices would have {and should have} been rougher, a little disappointing. My guess is that it was the directors choice. Jean Horton's fear was that she'd never again sound as good as she did in her youth. By the end of the movie, she did.
-- Smeth
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One of the great things about Quartet is Hoffman's careful selection of previously active cast members. Someone wondered if John Cleese was in Quartet. He isn't, but another Fawlty Towers alumnus is here - namely Andrew Sachs, who played the perpetually befuddled "Manuel." When Manuel's antics were too far over the top, "Polly" or "Sybil" would invariably smile sweetly and explain, "He's from Barcelona." Actually Sachs was born in Berlin which means his Spanish persona was just good acting. His character in Quartet is "Bobby Swanson."
-- Bruce
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