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Details: 2012, USA, Cert 15, 105 mins
Direction: Yaron Zilberman
Summary: The four members of a famous string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of jealousy, infidelity and death.
With: Catherine Keener, Christoper Walken, Christopher Walken, Imogen Poots, Mark Ivanir, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Wallace Shawn
Our reviews
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Philip French
Fine performances enliven a moving drama about a group of classical musicians whose uneasy harmony is put at risk by illness, writes Philip French
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Peter Bradshaw
This drama about a string quartet in chaos after their cellist develops Parkinson's is a great grownup surprise, writes Peter Bradshaw
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If Yaron Zilberman's film can't make Christopher Walken and co look like real string players, at least it understands the dynamics of a quartet, says violinist Andrew Watkinson
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Christopher Walken has made so many movies playing psychos and weirdos, he can't remember half of them. But in his latest film, A Late Quartet, he's been cast against type as a cellist with Parkinson's. He says why he'd be happier playing it straight
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Ahead of its world premiere at Toronto on Monday, watch a clip of classical music drama A Late Quartet, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and Christopher Walken
