Director: Richard Linklater USA 2025 English; 100 min. Rated: R
Unfolding over the single evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart (a fantastically tuned Ethan Hawke) confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his hit musical Oklahoma!. This theatrical Richard Linklater film deftly fills out the colourful lifetime of a legendary creative partnership.
Nominated for the Golden Bear (Top Prize) at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival.
This is one of the best-directed, best-written, best-acted films I have seen in a while. Stephen Romei -The Australian
Like Lorenz Hart, Blue Moon is wry, witty, wistful, garrulous, freewheeling, and suffused with a sense of the melancholic….Matt Brunson – Film Frenzy