A Late Quartet

A Late Quartet
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Yaron Zilberman
Written by	Yaron Zilberman Seth Grossman
Produced by	Yaron Zilberman Mandy Tagger Vanessa Coifman David Faigenblum Emanuel Michael Tamar Sela
Starring	Philip Seymour Hoffman Catherine Keener Christopher Walken
Cinematography	Frederick Elmes
Edited by	Yuval Shar
Music by	Angelo Badalamenti
Production companies	Opening Night Productions RKO Pictures
Distributed by	Entertainment One
Release dates	September 10, 2012 (2012-09-10) (TIFF) November 2, 2012 (2012-11-02)
Running time	106 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$8 million[2]

A Late Quartet (released in Australia as Performance) is a 2012 American drama film directed by Yaron Zilberman and co-written by Zilberman and Seth Grossman. The film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Mark Ivanir and Imogen Poots.^[3]

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. The Brentano String Quartet played the quartet music for the soundtrack and Anne Sofie von Otter appears as the cellist's late wife, singing Korngold's "Marietta's Song" from Die tote Stadt.

The film premiered in the Special Presentation program at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, and was theatrically released in over 30 countries. It received generally positive reviews.