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...a pleasure to watch the two of them as a long-married couple, peeling back the layers of pain and love, trying to discover what, if anything, still binds them together.

...a heartfelt, intelligent, unassumingly well-constructed picture about a musician who has been diagnosed in the early stages of Parkinson's.

Measured performances from the seasoned cast balance out a script that errs towards the melodramatic. Hours sweating over those instruments pay dividends too.

Samtlige medvirkende i 'The Late Quartet' yder glimrende præstationer. Særligt Philip Seymour Hoffman er uovertruffen som neurotisk og desperat mand fanget i en grum midtvejskrise.

...man [får] her alle de eksistentielle emner fra livets store katalog, vendt og drejet i lyset af alderdommens kommen og tidens tand, følelsernes flygtighed og tilværelsens ulidelighed.