A Late Quartet (2012) on Netflix
Peter Mitchell, cellist of the Fugue String Quartet, learns he has Parkinson's and plans one final concert before retiring. Robert, the second violinist, wants the first violin chair.
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Plot summary
The Fugue String Quartet is approaching its 25th anniversary when Peter Mitchell, its cellist and oldest member, learns he has Parkinson's disease. He decides to play one final concert with the group and then retire. That announcement pushes the other players' hidden resentments into the open. Robert, the second violinist, wants to alternate the first violin chair with Daniel, who has held that chair for years. Robert is married to Juliette, the quartet's violist, and she does not back him in that. The group is known for Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14, opus 131, a piece it plays through whatever happens around it.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Late Quartet (2012)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- A Late Quartet was the first production ever permitted to film inside the building of the Frick Collection.
- The quartet's stage performances were shot in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, the same stage where the Guarneri Quartet had given its farewell concert in 2009.
- The scene in which Peter Mitchell tells his music class about meeting Pablo Casals is adapted from Cellist, the autobiography of cellist Gregor Piatigorsky; the film changes the circumstances and the pieces played, but Casals's words are essentially identical.
