The Four Seasons (1981)
Three close-knit couples spend time together during each of the four seasons. One couple divorces along the way, and the guy starts dating a woman half his age. The couples bond, eat together, play together, visit kids, and quarrel with one another.
It's a film about relationships.
The score features Vivaldi.
Directed by Alan Alda
Stars Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Len Cariou, Sandy Dennis, Rita Moreno, Jack Weston, and Bess Armstrong
Haven't seen the #FourSeasons (1981) but it was made around the same time as the #BigChill (1983) which I have seen but didn't like. So, I don't think I'd like Four Seasons either.
This is probably because both are about the growing pains experienced by adults of my generation &, if Four Seasons is anything like the Big Chill, who are too needy, too self-possessed & too self-involved to be able to manage their lives & to relate with others effectively.
If memory serves, Big Chill is about a group re-connecting after a friend's death. They stay together. There's old music played. I believe there's secrets that are revealed from the past.
Four Seasons is about friends who hang out together regularly, and go through issues. When a divorce happens, and one member is no longer there, it changes the group dynamic, and no one is sure how to navigate. They end up airing their grievances by the end of the film. At the beginning of the film, they cook Chinese food together, that legitimately made me hungry. Later they talk about cooking Indian or Italian food. The group is silly around one another, and they get into situations that would be considered memorable, such as being stuck on a sandbar in a sailboat, and later some go skinny dipping.
It's funny, I first saw this film as a little kid, and remembered the photographer who took pictures of vegetables at the beginning, and skinny dipping scene afterwards. I didn't remember much else.
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