Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 131 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, France
The story
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.
- jazz
- musician
- jazz singer or musician
- saxophonist
- saxophone
- jazz club
- biography
- expatriate
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- 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
- Herbie Hancock — Eddie Wayne
- Bobby Hutcherson — Ace
- Directed
- Bertrand Tavernier
- Written
- Bertrand Tavernier, David Rayfiel
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 107 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures, Winkler Films, Productions et Éditions Cinématographiques Françaises, Little Bear
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
