A jazz classic
Added 11/11/2009
Roun' Midnight tells the story of an American jazz player in Paris, whose life changes when he meets a kid who loves his music but is too poor to get into jazz clubs. A sensitive human drama with an added bonus, great music. This is a jazz classic.
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Great Jazz movie
Added 9/3/2009
A great movie about Jazz in Paris
and how a French man (Francois Cluzet)
becomes the agent of the greatest Tenor sax
player(Dale Turner) played by Dexter Gordon.
It's a great tribute to the life of so many American musicians
in Paris in the late 50's
featuring:Dexter Gordon ,Herbie Hancock(academy award winner for the soundtrack)
John Mc Laughin,Bobby Hutcherson and many others
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Jazz in Paris fifty years ago.....
Added 5/11/2009
This movie is mainly based on the life of jazz piano giant Bud Powell, with bits of Lester Young (the feminine surnames and tenor sax). I hope that Criterion releases a deluxe edition soon, as this movie rates such a treatment.
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Being a Jazz genius is worth a beer in Paris
Added 1/9/2009
Growing old when you have abused your body and blown away your soul can be hard.
Kind of a slow movie with not always good music:
the how good tenor sax here is exagrerated
and sometimes he hits some real sour notes.
The old tenor sax man and jazz composer finds a French friend who saves him for a last bright stand in Paris.
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Lush Life
Added 12/6/2008
Round Midnight captures the life of a jazz musician perfectly. The late nights, fighting the post partum emptiness that follows a gig, the struggle to survive and keep one's body and soul together, the comeraderie that exists between the musicians. Everything was flawless.
Dexter Gordon's performance was breathtaking. Here is everything every jazz musician faces, every demon that must be conqured.
The music is a world in itself. The masters themselves playing their own music.
The Francois character had his own demons too. He abandoned his wife, and nearly abandoned his daughter, to chase his own muse that came to him in the form of the music and the people who played it. He took Gordon's character in so that he could repay the debt. And yet there was always an area of the musician's world he could only look at and never enter. He was an outsider that had been accepted by that tribe because of his love for one of their own. But he would never be one of them.
The movie is sad and joyful, tragic and beautiful, desolate and bountiful.
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A jazz classic
Added 11/11/2009
Roun' Midnight tells the story of an American jazz player in Paris, whose life changes when he meets a kid who loves his music but is too poor to get into jazz clubs. A sensitive human drama with an added bonus, great music. This is a jazz classic.
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Great Jazz movie
Added 9/3/2009
A great movie about Jazz in Paris
and how a French man (Francois Cluzet)
becomes the agent of the greatest Tenor sax
player(Dale Turner) played by Dexter Gordon.
It's a great tribute to the life of so many American musicians
in Paris in the late 50's
featuring:Dexter Gordon ,Herbie Hancock(academy award winner for the soundtrack)
John Mc Laughin,Bobby Hutcherson and many others
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
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Jazz in Paris fifty years ago.....
Added 5/11/2009
This movie is mainly based on the life of jazz piano giant Bud Powell, with bits of Lester Young (the feminine surnames and tenor sax). I hope that Criterion releases a deluxe edition soon, as this movie rates such a treatment.
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