The greatest movie ever!

Fantastic!

it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Christopher Walken gives an extraordinary performance as an aging cellist faced with a life changing illness. Very Dramatic film, with deep dialogue and thoughts. The cast works well together. How I can go from College Basketball to a Emotional Film like this shows I am very refined !! Ha Ha Go see if you like the actors. The music grows on ya Bravo............

Clearly at no stage of development did anyone involved in this movie see it as anything but art house fodder and that means that no one, especially no member of the cast, signed up for anything other than job satisfaction and if all movies were made like that we could get rid of the dreaded cgi and sequel syndrome but, inevitably, we would become bored with a surfeit of quality. So it's probably just as well that movies as sublime as this are thin on the ground. Because, make no mistake this IS a sublime movie suffering from perfect casting which equates to labour-of-love performances. O the whole I can take or leave Classical music, give me the Great American Songbook and I'm a happy bunny, Cole Porter rather than Purcell, Jerry Kern rather than Rimsky Korsakov, you get the picture. So the classical music that formed the warp and the woof of this entry was almost incidental except that it DID actually arouse my interest and enhanced what were already impeccable performances. In short I found this to be both absorbing and entertaining.

String quartet that successfully plays for 25 years hits a snag, when their leader gets diagnosed with the Parkinson's disease. In their small, contained world that is tantamount to nuclear explosion. Quartet deeply depends on its member uncanny closeness and almost supernatural ability to intertwine emotions. Their famous performing piece is the Beethoven's masterpiece String Quartet, Op.131, grandiose monster with 7 movements and no pause. So, as this disaster looms over them, their grievances and pent up emotions, threaten to undermine everything they managed to accomplish. Unfulfilled ambitions, loves not returned, or just the merciless passage of time, when looking behind you is less painful than glancing into the future. And above all, gorgeous music, mostly Beethoven, and the stunning aria written by Erich Korngold, sung by Anne Sofie Von Otter. Life continues because it must, all the flutter of our hearts slows down and we plod along. Beethoven helps.

This is easily the most pretentious movie of the year. Not one character is believable.How can anyone relate to this artsy fartsy pablum? Most people in the real world deal with these problems on a daily basis but don't have their stories dramatized.But since it's an elitist type deal, the hoity toity crowd, it gets high ratings on IMDb.Only dooches relate to this film, most likely the worst of the decade, due to how awfully snobby it is.If I had my way, I'd send 'The Sons of Anarchy' in to break this pupu up.Now that would be a great film. These snooty tooty people getting their behinds kicked by a biker gang.You add Jason Statham to the mix and you've gotta a good film...as long as he's drinking a Schlitz tall boy at the beginning of every scene.