Round Midnight
Bertrand Tavernier / FR, US, 1986 / 133 min.
Saxophonist Dale Turner moves to Paris to conquer his demons. Turner – inspired by Lester Young – is played by jazz legend Dexter Gordon: jazz history and fiction meet in Bertrand Tavernier’s bittersweet ode to jazz.
Dale Turner, a jazz musician from New York, struggles with addiction and travels to Paris to start over. At the close of the 1950s, the city of light was a safe haven for other African-American musicians fleeing the racism in the USA, sick and tired as they were of having their artform jazz devalued. In Paris, Turner befriends the jazz fan Francis Paudra, who wants to keep Turner on the right path and a beautiful friendship develops between the two.
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Director
Bertrand Tavernier
Production year
1986
Country
FR, US
Original title
Autour de minuit
Length
133 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NLD
Format
35mm
Part of
All That Jazz
All That Jazz: a scintillating programme on jazz and film featuring classics, live performances and a focus on exceptional avant-garde and activist filmmakers with a passion for jazz. From Miles Davis to Vincent de Boer, from Sun Ra to Ornette Coleman.
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