City Cinema & Roving Picture Shows Present: Round Midnight

Musical, Drama. 14A. Mild nudity and language.
Dir: Bertrand Tavernier, US, 1986, 133 min.
Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Sandra Reaves-Phillips.

From August 2 to 10, Roving Picture Shows will be hosting a Jazz on Film series, with screenings here and there. And what better way to start than with Bernard Tavernier’s 1986 classic Round Midnight, starring tenor saxophonist Dexton Gordon in one of his only roles, which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role. A New York jazzman seeks a fresh start in Paris and strikes up an unlikely friendship with a struggling single father and avid jazz fan. Although the film is fictional, it is directly inspired by the memoirs of French author Francis Paudras, who befriended jazz pianist Bud Powell in Paris.