Blue Moon

Blue Moon is a bittersweet gem that cuts like a painful love song. The film follows Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke in an oscar worthy performance), formerly the partner of Richard Rogers before the latter split off to form Rogers & Hammerstein, it’s the opening night of Oklahoma! and a bitter Hart drowns his sorrows at a bar and regales the fellow patrons with his signature stories including his hopelessly one sided infatuation with a young ingenue (Margaret Qualley) despite the fact he is gay. Blue Moon is a fantastic portrait of the last days of a forgotten artist with Richard Linklater (who also directed the terrific Nouvelle Vague this year) stepping back and allowing the screenplay and Hawke’s performance to speak for itself. Hawke is career best here playing a brilliant but bitter man who puts up a desperate front of support in front of his former friend while drowning in booze and resentment. It’s an incredible performance and Blue Moon completely lives up to it. 

I Give It 5 Stars!!!