Review of A Late Quartet (2012) by Eric A — 25 Nov 2012
Not a bad film...it was not on my radar, yet a friend of mine was in music so I decided to go. It was wonderfully shot in my neighborhood (West Side) and on the Eastside at 92nd Street. Part of the fun for New Yorkers to watch a New York movie is to spot the location.
This one uses Central Park to advantage as well. Yet this is not the complete reason to see this movie. Christopher Walken and the ensemble feel of the piece given to us through Hoffman, Keener, & Ivanir.
They make it all worth while-what I yearned for was a movie that used the music completely as an analogy to the human collective relationship between the four. Yet I feel it grazed that. Grossman & Zilberman's screenplay veers towards melodrama and soap opera cliches'.
Walken's journey as a musician with Parkinsons is complete. You can see the pain in his eyes yet the control of an artist to stay in touch with his heart. He wants to maintain purity and trueness to the Beethoven fugue OP.
131. The love of the truth in the artistic endeavor is easy for all four actors to channel because that is what they give us as actors. So we forgive the cliche.
This review of A Late Quartet (2012) was written by Eric A on 25 Nov 2012.
A Late Quartet has generally received positive reviews.
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