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'Round Midnight (Criterion) (1996)
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Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax.Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes.Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius in the fading musician.Round Midnight, set to Herbie Hancock's superb Academy Award-winning Best Original Score, is an elegant ode to bebop -- the | | |
