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'Round Midnight
Drama, Music
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to soulful musical performances, intimate male friendship, and elegiac stories of damaged artists finding one last burst of creative purpose.
- Tone
- melancholic, bittersweet, warm
- Payoff
- catharsis, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- friendship, artistic renewal, expatriate life, addiction, mortality
- Setting
- late 1950s, smoky Paris jazz clubs and modest apartments
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