A Late Quartet
When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the group's future suddenly hangs in the balance as suppressed emotions, competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. As they are about to play their 25th anniversary concert — quite possibly their last — only their intimate bond and the power of music can preserve their legacy.
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- Cast：
- Christopher Walken , Philip Seymour Hoffman , Mark Ivanir , Catherine Keener , Imogen Poots , Liraz Charhi , Madhur Jaffrey
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To me, this movie is perfection.
it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Christopher Walken gives an extraordinary performance as an aging cellist faced with a life changing illness. Very Dramatic film, with deep dialogue and thoughts. The cast works well together. How I can go from College Basketball to a Emotional Film like this shows I am very refined !! Ha Ha Go see if you like the actors. The music grows on ya Bravo............
It is not the best movie but it has very good moments I really enjoyed. The act of all actors and actresses are terrific. I liked some moments in this movie, like the time that Alexandra called her mom jealous after she found out about her affair with Daniel, or the moment Peter is looking from balcony and you expect he is committing suicide. Still, there is something missing in the plot and it is in my opinion a greater end to all this. I do not know how to address this. I like the acts, the story, some moments but still after all I was expecting a better end. However, the story seems so reasonable and there was no flaw in it. The reaction of Robert, as an instance seemed so reasonable and the other things happened after that.
"A Late Quartet" sets out on a lofty premise: the human intrigue of a longstanding string quartet that vauntedly plays Beethoven's great meditation on mortality and the abyss, the Op. 131 quartet. And promptly it begins to stumble, with arid, dessicated execution pretending to be contemplative. One quartet member gets an unfortunate medical diagnosis, but in fact the diagnosis isn't nearly as bad as the producers and directors posture it as being. Meanwhile, the storyline between two quartet members who are a couple becomes soap-operatic. What I kept hoping this film would achieve is resonance between the arc of the story and the movements of the quartet, which contains some of the profoundest existential utterances by Western man. It never does. Meanwhile, I know intimately at least three dozen fine ensemble performances of the Op. 131, and while I do not expect the rendition provided in the soundtrack to be measured by them, the interpretations provided in the score don't move me. There is fine talent here, and I never don't enjoy Catherine Keener in anything, but the totality of this film cannot help but stray into being lapidary and boring.
Pretentious film, with a weak plot and OK but unimpressive acting. The film pretends to show a psychological drama inside a famous string quartet. Instead it is very banal melodrama with a predictable and flat plot. Don't expect to learn new things about Beethoven or classical music from this film. One of the actors (Christopher Walken) is not fitting the role and this is poorly masked by barely showing his hands when he is playing cello. The other actors at least give impression that they had some violin training. This film is supposed to be about finding an ultimate perfection in music but the actual performance leaves much to be desired.
