Simply Perfect

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Christopher Walken gives an extraordinary performance as an aging cellist faced with a life changing illness. Very Dramatic film, with deep dialogue and thoughts. The cast works well together. How I can go from College Basketball to a Emotional Film like this shows I am very refined !! Ha Ha Go see if you like the actors. The music grows on ya Bravo............

It's not easy for Americans to produce credible emotions - as we see them in Europe on screen. This film goes as far in that direction as possible. It's easy to say that any flick with Philip Seymour Hoffman is a good one, and he dominates the screen indeed, but a lot of good acting happens when he isn't there too. Mark Ivanir of Saving Private Ryan fame plays a very intense Daniel and a young Imogen Poots presents a credible Alexandra.Indeed it isn't so much about music, it is about a small team of people working very intensely together, who face a major crisis and about suppressed emotions coming out because of that. The plot moves rather slowly for you to enjoy elaborate scenes some may find a bit tedious at times. Quite enjoyable for a late night viewing with a glass of wine on a quiet evening.

Greetings from Lithuania."A Late Quartet" (2012) is a very honest, good picture. I know, the premise of a drama about quartet doesn't sound really exciting , but trust me, this movie is really good for even those (like me) who don't know anything about serious music. The acting is superb, very solid, especially by the great Christopher Walken. This movie is so touching is it's on way you just can't let it go. Overall, a very solid 9/10 for "A Late Quartet", and sadly, the title represents the very sad and sudden departure of one of our greatest actors Philip Seymour Hoffman - do your self a favor and watch this picture, it's a truly great picture about theme you won't find in a movies - it's like bottle of good wine.

An okay drama that might be quite a bit less than okay if it weren't for its performances. In particular, Philip Seymour Hoffman, for which I obviously watched the film, stands out. The film involves a popular string quartet composed of Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener and, um, Mark Ivanir. I guess they ran out of money before hiring the fourth member of the cast. Actually, Ivanir, who is a popular character actor whom you've seen dozens of times, is pretty good in the film. The fifth major member of the cast is played by Imogen Poots, that young Scottish gal with the world's most amusing moniker. So Walken is the eldest member of the quartet. He was famous before the others, and gathered the three younger members years ago. Now he's starting to suffer from Parkinson's, which throws the group into turmoil. Hoffman and Keener are a married couple with a strained marriage and professional career. Poots is their daughter, who is the student of Ivanir; she also becomes his lover. The plot is nothing at all to write home about, but, as I said, the actors are all fine (with the exception of Poots, who really isn't very talented). Hoffman has a couple of killer scenes.