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‘Round Midnight

Director: Bertrand Tavernier Run Time: 133 min. Format: 35mm Rating: R Release Year: 1986

Starring: Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazz man 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 burst of genius in director Bertrand Tavernier’s Round Midight, starring bebop legend Dexter Gordon.

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