'Round Midnight(1986)

movie - first aired/released 1986-09-23 - 131 min - audience 7.1

Drama, Music

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier

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.