'Round Midnight

'Round Midnight

★ 7.1IMDb Score
Released:1986-09-23
Duration:131 min
Director:Bertrand Tavernier
Actors:Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker, Christine Pascal, Pierre Trabaud
Production:Warner Bros. Pictures, Winkler Films, Productions et Éditions Cinématographiques Françaises, Little Bear

Overview:

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.

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