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Genres:
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Drama /
Music /
Music
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Director:
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Bertrand Tavernier
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Actors:
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Lonette McKee,
Sandra Reaves-Phillips,
Pierre Trabaud,
Frédérique Meininger,
Dexter Gordon,
Gabrielle Haker,
Christine Pascal,
Bobby Hutcherson,
François Cluzet,
Herbie Hancock
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Duration:
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133 min.
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Rating:
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(7.2/10)62
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Plot Summary:
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A moving story of an expatriate black jazz musician and his exertion to imagine the be-bop right-minded in 1959 Paris. First-time actor Dexter Gordon was nominated for an Academy Award as the aging sax actress, and Herbie Hancock's account for won an Oscar.
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Round Midnight
Tavernier's offbeat love letter to bebop gets the best jazz dim reward since Sven Klang's Combo. Night after night in...
Round Midnight
Single of the best jazz films ever made, this succeeds by melding French sensibilities there atmosphere with American sensibilities about the music. Tavernier's direction is constantly moody, from the streets of Paris to the smoky clubs, seedy hostels and even to the chic flats of the borough's inhabitants. The wonderfully voiced Gordon is an almost over-the-hill American jazzer, recovering from heroin addiction, maddening to start afresh in France. Although his expectations of pungency aren't much, he's rescued from blackness close to an fervid young supporter (Cluzet). Gordon's performance is a fancy of excellence and Hancock's goat picked up a well-deserved Oscar.
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