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Round Midnight

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Round Midnight (1986)

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Reviews Counted: 15 Fresh: 15  Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.1/10

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Runtime: 2 hrs 12 mins

Synopsis: 'ROUND MIDNIGHT is the moving story of an expatriate black jazz musician and his struggle to create the bebop sound in 1959 Paris. Dexter Gordon is sensational in the lead role--he earned an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Dale Turner--and Herbie Hancock, who appears in the... 'ROUND MIDNIGHT is the moving story of an expatriate black jazz musician and his struggle to create the bebop sound in 1959 Paris. Dexter Gordon is sensational in the lead role--he earned an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Dale Turner--and Herbie Hancock, who appears in the film, was nominated for his score. Director Bertrand Tavernier beautifully captures the many joys and sorrows that encompass the jazz world. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Lonette McKee, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, Martin Scorsese

Director: Bertrand Tavernier

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Jul 22, 2008

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Round Midnight is a superbly crafted music world drama in which Gallic director Bertrand Tavernier pays a moving dramatic tribute to the great black musicians who lived and performed in Paris in the late 1950s.

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04/08/08
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One of the best jazz films ever made, this succeeds by melding French sensibilities about atmosphere with American sensibilities about the music.

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04/08/08
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The director's perenially heavy mood seems especially well suited to this indigo-shaded story of a black American saxman (Dexter Gordon) living and performing in Paris in the late 50s.

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04/08/08
Pat Graham
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02/25/07
Jake Euker
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Dale Turner, as played by Dexter Gordon, seems to be an amalgam of Bud Powell and Lester Young, but the private, rueful dignity that he brings to bear is all his own.

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06/24/06
Time Out
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It's a brooding yet warm elegy, as plaintive as a slow, low-toned ballad in a minor key.

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04/05/06
Mark Bourne
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03/12/04
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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The film's quality lies not just in its vivid portrayal of the bebop milieu, but also in its sensitive examination of the turbulent forces within an artist compelled to create on a nightly basis, despite personal consequences.

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07/30/03
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06/04/03
Walter Chaw
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No actor could do what the great jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon does in 'Round Midnight.

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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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Guided by the spirit of the art form it celebrates, Tavernier's film is a mesmerizing audio-visual lament for the impending death of jazz

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06/27/02
Dan Jardine
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A lovingly gentle yet vibrant tribute to jazz, friendship and film itself, made by a director of consummate taste and precise imagination.

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01/01/00
Paul Attanasio
Washington Post
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Gordon goes the limit as Turner, dedicating his performance to all the cats who've gone before.

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01/01/00
Rita Kempley
Washington Post
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You do not need to know a lot about jazz to appreciate what is going on because, in a certain sense, this movie teaches you everything about jazz that you really need to know.

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01/01/00
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Chicago Sun-Times
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