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'Round Midnight

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'Round Midnight
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R,2hrs 13min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1986
Director:
Bertrand Tavernier
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker  ...more
Synopsis: A French music lover befriends a once-great American jazz artist and attempts to save him from self-destruction in this moody drama. Saxophonist Dexter Gordon portrays Dale Turner, a fictional musician inspired by a number of famed jazz figures, including Bud Powell and Lester Young. Largely forgotten in his home country, Turner has moved to Paris in search of a more appreciative audience. He finds it in the form of Francis Borler (Francois Cluzet), a bebop aficionado who befriends the expatriate ... Full Synopsis
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Dan Jardine, AMG Review
'Round Midnight, a film inspired by the lives of Bud Powell and Lester Young, is director Bertrand Tavernier's audio-visual lament for the impending death of jazz. Tavernier utilizes a roving camera and be-bop editing to tell this story of the relationship between a self-destructive, emotionally-disintegrating but technically-brilliant jazz legend (Dexter Gordon) living and working in exile in France, ... Full Review
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Dexter Gordon
Dale Turner
François Cluzet
Francis Borler
Gabrielle Haker
Berangere
Sandra Reaves-Phillips
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