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'Round Midnight

  R HD Closed Captioning

Bertrand Travernier & Bertrand Tavernier

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Plot Summary

Inspired by the life of legendary jazz pianist Bud Powell, this is the Academy Award-winning story of an American expatriate musician who tries to make order of his life during the great jazz milieu of 1950s Paris. The New York Times commends "its tremendous depth of feeling and lovely, elegiac pace.... [This] is a glowing, masterly tribute." Starring real-life tenor-sax great Dexter Gordon, performing live with some of the world's top jazz musicians on screen such as Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, John McLaughlin, Billy Higgins and Bobby Hutcherson. This Grammy-winning soundtrack is under the music supervision of Herbie Hancock, who also won an Oscar for his Original Score. Also starring Lonette McKee ("Jungle Fever," "The Cotton Club") and Academy Award-winner director Martin Scorsese ("The Departed," "GoodFellas").

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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews

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  • Reviews Counted: 18
  • Fresh: 18
  • Rotten: 0
  • Average Rating: 8.1/10

Top Critics' Reviews

Fresh: No actor could do what the great jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon does in 'Round Midnight. – Janet Maslin, New York Times, Jun 24, 2010

Fresh: 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. – Variety Staff, Variety, Jul 7, 2010

Fresh: Gordon goes the limit as Turner, dedicating his performance to all the cats who've gone before. – Rita Kempley, Washington Post, Jul 18, 2006

Fresh: A lovingly gentle yet vibrant tribute to jazz, friendship and film itself, made by a director of consummate taste and precise imagination. – Paul Attanasio, Washington Post, Jul 18, 2006

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Customer Reviews

Great

This is like having Jimmy Page play a rock guitarist in a film. Dexter Gordon is supreme, the musicians around him in the film can't be beat.

Right In Tune

If you like jazz and love Paris this movie is a complete delight. It's wonderfully shot but the real magic is in the way it captures the textures, often uneven, of the jazz life. Dexter Gordon is tremendous and the film holds both the power of his music and his personality very well.

Jazz, Jazz, JAZZ!!!!!

Amazing, astounding, beautiful, majestic, and so poetic. In my opinion a superb story telling of how it was in 1959 Paris. When jazz was big and became a landmark in American music history. This film is so well directed, and it gives you an in depth look of the world of jazz! And the music... So Strikingly rich. Jazz legend Dexter Gordon portrays the character Dale Turner with charisma, and much feeling. Highly Reccomended for all jazz lovers!!!

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