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Inspired by and structured around Beethoven's Op. 131, the film follows the world-renowned Fugue String Quartet after its cellist Peter Mitchell (Walken) is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Frederick Elmes served as cinematographer and Angelo Badalamenti composed the score.
Built around Beethoven’s ‘String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor’, which has seven movements meant to be played non-stop, it tries to be the filmic equivalent of a chamber piece. There is ...
Nov 8, 2012 · Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener keep trying to make beautiful music together in 'A Late Quartet,' a new film about the struggles of a veteran chamber group.
A Late Quartet: Directed by Yaron Zilberman. With Catherine Keener, Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Ivanir. Members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos, and insuppressible lust.
- (15K)
- Drama, Music
- Yaron Zilberman
- 2012-11-23
Oct 31, 2012 · In the 25th year of their career together, a famous string quartet receives some devastating news. Peter, their cellist, has been diagnosed in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease. This bombshell interrupts the steady pace of their work and exposes personal issues that have long remained latent.
Extremely complex and largely misunderstood by musicians and audiences of Beethoven's day, the late quartets are now widely considered to be among the greatest musical compositions of all time, [1][2][3] and have inspired many later composers. Overview.
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Nov 1, 2012 · “A Late Quartet” follows the upheavals that threaten a fictional elite string quartet in New York as its members quarrel, cheat, get even and jockey for power.
