Performance

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I knew this one by its original title A Late Quartet when I was reading about it last year. In Australia the title's been changed to Performance but the end credits still listed the film as A Late Quartet anyway. Go figure.

This is a nice little drama though, with a good cast. There were a few places that felt a little too on the nose, the direction was not exactly subtle. In fact it was a little clunky sometimes, one or two decisions felt very out of place. For some reason Catherine Keener's performance never rang true to me either. But as a first narrative effort from director Yaron Zilberman it holds up fine despite lacking some subtlety.

I like that the entire audience stayed all the way through the end credits to hear Beethoven's music right to the end and were just as enraptured by that as the story in the film.