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’Round Midnight is a love letter from director Bertrand Tavernier to the heyday of bebop and the Black American musicians who found refuge in the smoky underground jazz clubs of 1950s Paris. In a sui generis, Oscar-nominated fusion of performer and character, legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon plays Dale Turner, a brilliant New York jazz veteran whose music aches with beauty but whose personal life is ravaged by addiction. Searching for a fresh start in Paris, Turner strikes up an unlikely friendship with a struggling single father and ardent jazz fan (François Cluzet) who finds his life transformed as he attempts to help the self-destructive musician. Herbie Hancock’s evocative, Oscar-winning score sets the mood for this definitive jazz film, a bittersweet opus that glows with lived-in, soulful authenticity. (Criterion)
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Dexter Gordon
USA
Best movies:
Awakenings (1990)
'Round Midnight (1986)
François Cluzet
France
Best movies:
Untouchable (2011)
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
'Round Midnight (1986)
Gabrielle Haker
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'Round Midnight (1986)
Lonette McKee
USA
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
He Got Game (1998)
Jungle Fever (1991)
Sandra Reaves-Phillips
USA
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
Lean on Me (1989)
For Love or Money (1993)
Christine Pascal
France
Best movies:
The Grand Highway (1987)
'Round Midnight (1986)
The Maids of Wilko (1979)
Herbie Hancock
USA
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Miles Ahead (2015)
Bobby Hutcherson
USA
Best movies:
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
'Round Midnight (1986)
Victoria Gabrielle Platt
USA
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
The Baytown Outlaws (2012)
Matchmaker Santa (2012) (TV movie)
John Berry
USA
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
'Round Midnight (1986)
Martin Scorsese
USA
Best movies:
Raging Bull (1980)
Pavlova: A Woman for All Time (1983)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Philippe Noiret
France
Best movies:
Agence matrimoniale (1952)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
The Old Gun (1975)
Sophie Marceau
France
Best movies:
Braveheart (1995)
'Round Midnight (1986)
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Frédérique Meininger
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
Flic Story (1975)
Life and Nothing But (1989)
Liliane Rovère
France
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
'Round Midnight (1986)
Buffet Froid (1979)
Pierre Trabaud
France
Best movies:
War of the Buttons (1962)
Daisy Town (1971)
Asterix and Cleopatra (1968)
Eddy Mitchell
France
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
I Love You (1986)
Clean Slate (1981)
Andrzej Precigs
Poland
Best movies:
Three Colours: White (1994)
'Round Midnight (1986)
East Wind (1993)
Ged Marlon
France
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
Long Live Life (1984)
Série noire (1984) (series)
Alain Sarde
France
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
The Bait (1995)