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Name: A Late Quartet
Released: 2012-11-2
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Ivanir, Catherine Keener, Christopher Walken, Imogen Poots

A Late Quartet

R
1h 47m
2012

77%

After 25 years together, the members of a world-renowned string quartet learn that their beloved cellist (Walken) may soon be forced to retire.

Director:

Yaron Zilberman

Producer:

Vanessa Coifman, David Faigenblum, Emanuel Michael

Writer:

Yaron Zilberman, Seth Grossman

Cast:

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Ivanir, Catherine Keener, Christopher Walken, Imogen Poots, Liraz Charhi, Wallace Shawn

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

77%

Critics Consensus: An outstanding ensemble cast lends weight and depth to A Late Quartet's melodramatic script, and the result is insightful and emotionally satisfying.

Reviews

The Spool

Jonah Koslofsky

Hoffman knew how to hold back, how to use his screen-time to imply an interiority without a script that spells everything out.

Although the tone and pacing may not set the screen alight, A Late Quartet has sensitivity, sophistication and a strong, watchable cast ensemble.

A little more of that kind of restrained elegance and musical beauty may have freed the film from its somewhat stifling atmosphere.

Little more than a muddled cacophony of clichéd dramatic twists and transparent developments, somehow belying its eloquent and graceful leitmotif.

Surrounded by the unraveling lives of his longtime musical partners, the understated gravity that Walken gives this fading arts patriarch is a gratifying reminder that it's the quieter notes that are often the most resonant, onstage and off.

September 5, 2018

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