A Late Quartet, the first fiction film from director
Yaron Zilberman,
follows the lives of four longtime colleagues who play in a celebrated
string quartet together. As the group begin their 25th season together,
the eldest member (
Christopher Walken)
discovers he has the beginning stage of Parkinson's disease. Because he
can't perform to the best of his abilities, he would like to bow out of
the quartet without disbanding it. However, a married couple within the
group (
Philip Seymour Hoffman and
Catherine Keener)
are on the brink of breaking up, and their rocky period isn't helped by
the fact that the fourth member has begun an affair with their
college-age daughter.
A Late Quartet screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.
