THE Phoenix re-emerges for 2014 with A Late Quartet.

A quarter of a century into their career together, a famous string quartet receives some devastating news. Cellist Peter has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

The bombshell interrupts the steady pace of their work and exposes a host of long latent personal issues that come to the fore.

The 2012 film, showing on Wednesday at Union Films at the University of Southampton, is the first this year from the city’s independent film society.

For details, see thephoenix.org.uk