Blue Moon
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“I mean, I'm in love with her, but everyone’s in love with her”
Overview
It’s 1943 and Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke), the American lyricist behind such hits as My Funny Valentine, The Lady is a Tramp and Blue Moon, has escaped from the opening night of “Oklahoma!”, the broadway musical written by his former creative partner Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott) alongside Oscar Hammerstein (Simon Delaney). Too sober for his own liking, Hart steals himself away to chat the ear off the bartender (Bobby Cavandale) at Sardi’s while he awaits his crush, Elizabeth (Margaret Qualley), a stunning Yale student half his age.
“Linklater has crafted one of his finest dramedies, a consistently fascinating exploration of the frailty of the artist, buoyed by one of Ethan Hawke’s most remarkable performances”
“A terrific performance from Hawke”
“Hawke does it all with aplomb, in a terrible comb-over, and you love him”
“It’s another satisfying and characteristically idiosyncratic entry in the fruitful Hawke and Linklater collaboration”
Why See This Film
Richard Linklater (The Before Trilogy, Dazed and Confused, and most recently Nouvelle Vague) reunites with Ethan Hawke to conduct a mesmerising study of a historic shaky partnership finally at its end. Do not fear if Rodgers and Hart musicals aren’t your area of expertise; an utterly transformative and transfixing Hawke (shrunken with stealthy staging trickery) more than catches you up to speed with his ceaseless tongue. Hilarious, heartbreaking and brilliant, Blue Moon is a uniquely cinematic chamber piece made even more immersive by a trip to our Golden Age Bar before and after.
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