Film Podcast #28: A Late Quartet
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DW Mault reviews Yaron Silberman’s drama, A Late Quartet.
After playing together for 25 years, a classical string quartet are thrown into disarray in the face of illness, lust and competition.
Cellist and oldest member of the quartet, Peter (Christopher Walken), makes a decision to retire after finding out he has Parkinson’s Disease. He decides that their next concert will be his last, farewell performance. As a consequence, the group’s foundations are shaken; second violin Robert Gelbart (Philip Seymour Hoffman), and his viola player wife, Juliette (Catherine Keener); and first violinist, Daniel Lerner (Mark Ivanir). The members struggle to find their new roles within the group and inevitably question its future.
“A subtle, intelligent picture with a suitably resonant title” – The Guardian
“Wants to be Bergman, ends up more like a burgundy-hued Sunset Beach” – Little White Lies
Hosted by director and cineaste DW Mault, with special guest, writer and filmmaker Matthew Fox.
Screening at FACT now
