The 75th Berlin International Film Festival hosted the premiere of director Richard Linklater’s latest film, Blue Moon. The film features a stellar ensemble cast, with Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Andrew Scott.
Linklater’s Blue Moon tells the story of the legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart bravely facing the future as his professional and private life unravels during the opening night party for his former partner Richard Rodgers’ hit show, Oklahoma!. In 100 minutes, the film unspools in real-time the events in Sardi’s bar on the evening of March 31, 1943. It is a meditation on friendship, art, and love, featuring a rich tapestry of writers, actors, musicians, friends, and protégés – a parade of the famous and the soon-to-be-famous. By the time this night is over, Hart will have confronted both a world irrevocably changed by the war and the seeming impossibility of love.
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