Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #83. Yaron Zilberman’s A Late Quartet

Zilberman’s first narrative feature benefits from a solid quartet of actors, and it could be an engrossing drama if illness and romance are portrayed with the required honesty.

Eric Lavallée

Published on January 4, 2012

#83. A Late Quartet

Director: Yaron Zilberman
Writer(s): Zilberman and Seth Grossman
Producers: Zilberman, Vanessa Coifman, David Faigenblum, Emanuel Michael, Tamar Sela and Mandy Tagger
Distributor: RKO Pictures

The Gist: This centers on a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust. Set in iconic New York City, this is the story of four musicians, bound together by their passion for music and long years of working together. But when their patriarch Peter (Walken) is diagnosed with a terminal illness, the repercussions hit the group deeper than they could imagine...(more)

Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Imogen Poots, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener

List Worthy Reasons…: Zilberman’s first narrative feature benefits from a solid quartet of actors, and it could be an engrossing drama if illness and romance are portrayed with the required honesty.

Release Date/Status?: A festival premiere is likely, and how RKO Pictures plans to release the drama is anyone’s guess.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).