Fresh
Round Midnight is a superbly crafted music world drama in which Gallic director Bertrand Tavernier pays a moving dramatic tribute to the great black musicians who lived and performed in Paris in the late 1950s.
Variety Staff, Variety
'Round Midnight
The music and the magic come together...
1986 · 2h 11m · R
Drama, Music
Directed by
Bertrand Tavernier
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'Round Midnight
Overview
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.
Director and cast
- Bertrand Tavernier Director
- Dexter Gordon as Dale Turner
- François Cluzet as Francis Borler
- Gabrielle Haker as Bérangère
- Christine Pascal as Sylvie
- Pierre Trabaud as le père de Francis
- Frédérique Meininger as la mère de Francis
- Liliane Rovère as Madame Queen
- Ged Marlon as Beau
- Benoît Régent as le psychiâtre
- Philippe Noiret Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
96%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The director's perenially heavy mood seems especially well suited to this indigo-shaded story of a black American saxman (Dexter Gordon) living and performing in Paris in the late 50s.
Pat Graham, Chicago Reader
Fresh
No actor could do what the great jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon does in 'Round Midnight.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
You do not need to know a lot about jazz to appreciate what is going on because, in a certain sense, this movie teaches you everything about jazz that you really need to know.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Gordon goes the limit as Turner, dedicating his performance to all the cats who've gone before.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
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