Blue Moon

March 31, 1943, New York City. It is the opening night of Oklahoma!, a ground-breaking musical play that promises to be a raging success. Legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart (a remarkable Ethan Hawke), however, slipped out of the performance, settling early at Sardi’s, the theater district bar that will host the afterparty to get drunk and bitch about his former creative partner and creator of the hit show, Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott). It is not the first time that Sardi’s barman (Bobby Cannavale), sees Lorenz order drink after drink while promising that the next one is the last… Margaret Qualley completes the all-star cast as an ingenue quite aware of her beauty’s advantages.

A moving study of the frailty of the artist, Richard Linklater’s multifasceted biopic of these real-life Broadway figures is, as always, a beautiful display of meticulous craftmanship. Razor-sharp dialogues that are gift to his wonderful actors, authorial gestures that elevates a chamber piece to an incredibly poetic and engaging drama… Linklater’s joy at exploring his art’s possibilities is exhilarating.

Introduced by the Irish producer (Wild Atlantic Pictures).

This film is eligible for the Best New Irish Feature Award, proudly sponsored by the Irish Examiner.