Four or Nothing, the Akilone Quatuor

From the countryside and the mountains where the Akilone Quartet rehearses Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 7—accompanied by Hatto Beyerle et Mathieu Herzog—to the Salle Cortot where they perform the work in concert, filmmaker Chloé Perlemuter takes us on a musical adventure to the heart of the joys and conflicts inherent to musicians’ lives, lives defined by “vocation”, as they themselves put it. A touching and inspiring look inside an ensemble whose performances are as formidable as the standards to which they hold themselves.