Christopher Walken Meets...Beethoven

UPDATE:  NYT has posted its Q & A  with Walken coming this Sunday in its magazine. 

Earlier:  Christopher Walken is getting raves for his performance in new film "7 Psychopaths," --but he plays a typical over-the-top Walken character.  To me, a more interesting departure is this:  As some may know, I am a late-blooming Beethoven freak, even co-wrote a new book about him (and his global impact), and maintain a blog, Roll Over, Beethoven.  Now there's a  new movie, A Late Quartet, opening tomorrow, which portrays a string quartet with one member needing to retire due to Parkinson's--this is, surprise,  Christopher Walken in a wonderful, restrained, award-worthy performance. (He even gets to softly utter a trademark "wowwww.")  Catherine Keener plays another member, and then there's Philip Seymour Hoffman. 

From the trailer (below) it seems it climaxes with them playing the greatest string music ever:   Beethoven's opus 131, written when he was fully deaf.  Here's favorable NYT review coming tomorrow.