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Round Midnight
- Director: Bertrand Tavernier
- Writer: David Rayfiel; Bertrand Tavernier
- Producer: Irwin Winkler
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If you don't like jazz then avoid like the plague. Although...it did win an Oscar for the soundtrack.
So...if you are not a jazz fan...it fails to retain the attention...just another story of a musician falling apart.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from his family, and hanging on by a thread in the 1950's New York jazz world. Dale gets an offer to play in Paris, where, like many other black American musicians at the time, he enjoys a respect for his humanity that is not based upon the color of his skin. A Parisian man who is obsessed with Turner's music befriends him and attempts to save Turner from himself. Although for Dale the damage is already done, his poignant relationship with the man and his young daughter re-kindles his spirit and his music as the end draws near.
Cast & Characters
Dexter Gordon as Dale Turner;
Francois Cluzet as Francis Borler;
Gabrielle Haker as Berangere;
Sandra Reaves-Phillips as Buttercup;
Lonette McKee as Darcey Leigh;
Christine Pascal as Sylvie;
Herbie Hancock as Eddie Wayne;
Bobby Hutcherson as Ace;
Pierre Trabaud as Francis's Father;
Frederique Meininger as Francis's Mother;
Hart Leroy Bibbs as Hershell;
Liliane Rovere as Madame Queen;
Ged Marlon as Beau;
Benoit Regent as Psychiatrist;
Victoria Gabrielle Platt as Chan Turner