2 Paws
Seen recently at Film Streams
This one has some really great moments that just don't add up to a satisfying whole. The bright spots - a stripped down Christopher Walken puts in some Oscar worthy screen time as a cellist facing the end of his celebrated career, the tonier parts of NYC have never looked more beautiful under a winter sky, and Mark Ivanir is intense as the quartet's first violinist, former love interest of the quartet's violist and (spoiler alert) current love interest of the daughter of the quartet's violist and second violinist (aaaaah, the intrigue).
My biggest gripe - I had a hard time relating to the cerebral, artistic world the quartet inhabits, and the coldness of the violist (Catherine Keener, whom I love) and the second violinist (Philip Seymour Hoffman, whom I love even more) didn't help matters much. Can't you be both a world-class musician and a person you'd want to hang out with?
Bonus Bones: 0
I guess music is everything to these people.
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