Key Highlights
- Starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall, Peter Hujar’s Day is a warm yet experimental chamber piece set around the re-creation of a real-life conversation that took place between photographer Peter Hujar (Whishaw) and writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Hall) in 1974.
- The official Criterion synopsis reads: In 1974, acclaimed photographer Peter Hujar describes the routines and rituals that define an artist’s life to his friend, the writer Linda Rosenkrantz, capturing a single day’s activities in touching and funny detail: from interactions with cultural icons of the day, including Allen Ginsberg, William S.
- Burroughs and Susan Sontag, to the texture and energy of downtown New York in its heyday.
- Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall star in the elegant and intimate new piece from filmmaker Ira Sachs (Passages) — a dazzling showcase for the two performers at its centre — that is both a masterful portrait of a time & place and a captivating film about the way art emerges from the intimate details of everyday life.
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