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New York, New York
Drama, Music, Romance
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to emotionally bruising romances, period music culture, and portraits of artists whose ambition corrodes intimacy.
- Tone
- melancholic, romantic, bittersweet
- Payoff
- heartbreak, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- ambition, artistic ego, troubled love, emotional manipulation, compromise
- Setting
- postwar 1940s–1950s, jazz clubs and urban apartments