Quartet (2012)

This is a feel good movie about people living out their dotage in what was once one of the grand British estates.  Think Downton Abbey is now a retirement home for musicians who are too old to tour and have no one to take care of them for one reason or another.  Maggie Smith plays a once famous, still remembered operatic soprano who sadly and reluctantly comes to the home.  She acts like she should be treated like royalty, but at the same time is struggling to come to grips with her current reality.  The wrinkle in her situation is that not only are the other three members of a quartet that she once sang with all at the same retirement home, but one of them is her ex-husband.  She had an episode of indiscretion while intoxicated that ruptured their relationship and now years later she finds that he still very much holds a grudge.  The story that unfolds is a feel good one, and offers hope for those who once had a glorious performing career can find happiness when all the lights and curtain calls are behind them.