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A Late Quartet (2012)

Drama | 105 minutes
3,36 270 votes

Genre: Drama / Music

Duration: 105 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Yaron Zilberman

Stars: Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener

IMDb score: 7,1 (15.624)

Releasedate: 2 November 2012

A Late Quartet plot

"No arrangement is more beautiful … or more complicated."

The members of the string quartet The Fugue have been performing together for 25 years. When cellist Peter announces that he will have to quit because he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, a disagreement arises between the other members, which soon becomes about more than who should succeed Peter.

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Gideon Rosen

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De filosoof

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Normally movies with Philip Seymour Hoffman are very good, but I found this one disappointing. The focus on a string quartet promises a high-quality (beautiful, intellectual) film, but it turns out to be little more than an average film about relationship troubles (which didn't interest me much).

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JJ_D

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How a person can suffer.

How a string quartet can express suffering.

Touching how Yaron Zilberman connects the existential from Beethoven's opus 131 with the crises that put pressure on a 25-year collaboration.

Sickness, envy, ambition, love and lust: these are the forces that rule the lives of four people in the cultural epicenter overseas: New York. From private backrooms across Central Park to Carnegie Hall, if 'A Late Quartet' needed yet another protagonist—in addition to its already stellar cast—it would be the city, silent witness to the flip side of the success.

A late quartet - but not the last, history has taught us. After all, even after these complications, a new horizon, a perspective, a future follows. Thank God Zilberman doesn't make all that explicit, but ultimately leaves the last word to Beethoven.

Ludwig...he who said it all, in a wordless language that everyone speaks.

3.5*

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mrklm

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When Peter Mitchell [Christopher Walken] has Parkinson's disease, he announces that he will stop as cellist of the famous string quartet The Fugue, which has been performing in the same line-up all over the world for 25 years. The other members, husbands Robert [Philip Seymour Hoffman] and Juliette Gelbart [Catherine Keener] and founder Daniel Lerner [Mark Ivanir], have to make decisions about the future of the quartet. It turns out they can't agree with each other and that leads to fierce quarrels that are about much more than the string quartet alone.

Superbly acted drama gives the four lead actors each a chance to show their skills and there is no false note to be found. It helps, of course, that the music was actually played by the Attaca String Quartet (which has a cameo during a music lesson taught by Peter) and that the screenplay contains some interesting anecdotes about Beethoven and Schubert, among others. Not an extraordinary drama, but definitely recommended for fans of the protagonists and lovers of music and its history. And there are cameos by Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and cellist Nina Lee.

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