23 May 2008
The Passions of Vaughan Williams
Fifty years after his death, this musical and psychological portrait of Ralph Vaughan Williams explores the passions that drove a giant of 20th-century English music.
'Round Midnight
The music and the magic come together...
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.
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Dexter Gordon Dale Turner
François Cluzet Francis Borler
Gabrielle Haker Bérangère
Christine Pascal Sylvie
Pierre Trabaud le père de Francis
Frédérique Meininger la mère de Francis
Liliane Rovère Madame Queen
Ged Marlon Beau
Benoît Régent Le psychiatre
Philippe Noiret Redon
Eddy Mitchell L'ivrogne au bar du Blue Note
Sandra Reaves-Phillips Buttercup
Lonette McKee Darcey Leigh
Bobby Hutcherson Ace
Hart Leroy Bibbs Herschell
Victoria Gabrielle Platt Chan Turner
Sophie Marceau Une fille dans la rue
Marc-Edouard Nabe Extra
Noël Simsolo
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