Blue Moon is a film without ellipses, without time jumps, and with no more special effects than simple emotion. Richard Linklater (Houston, 1960) recreates a piece of the night of March 31, 1943, in which the legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) and eternal collaborator of musician Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott) faces the triumph of the latter with the Broadway musical Oklahoma!; a work that marks the break between the two and with which the former has nothing to do.
Everything unfolds inside Sardi's bar where an enthusiastic audience celebrates the premiere day triumph. Meanwhile, our hero embarks on an almost dazzling yet tense monologue, deeply wounded and at the same time very close to delirium. The film is the first of the two major works that the director of the Before... trilogy releases with just a few months apart. The second, Nouvelle Vague, also historical, is nothing more than cinema, cinema that talks about cinema, cinema that recreates cinema, cinema that reconstructs the filming of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless in the way that Godard himself would, did, or would have done. Linklater or the cinema of cinema.
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