What can be revealed in just one conversation? “Peter Hujar’s Day” focuses on a single tête-à-tête as well as the two figures that made it special. Writer-director Ira Sachs’ film revolves around a 1974 meeting between Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz. Hujar is now widely recognized as an influential American photographer, a praise that eluded him while alive. “Peter Hujar’s Day” stars Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall portray Hujar and Rosenkrantz, respectively. Whishaw notably worked with Sachs on the Sundance Film Festival selection “Passages.”
The film’s official synopsis:
Ira Sachs’s new film, Peter Hujar’s Day, stars Ben Wishaw and Rebecca Hall in a richly cinematic rendering of a conversation recorded in 1974 between photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz. Their talk that day focused on a single 24 hours in the life of Hujar, the brilliant and famously uncompromising artist who was one of the most important figures in downtown New York’s legendary cultural scene of the 70s and 80s. Set entirely in Linda’s Manhattan apartment, the film freely and imaginatively recreates that long-ago afternoon and the wonderfully discursive exchange between these two singular individuals. As the photographer vividly describes interactions with leading cultural figures of the day, including Allen Ginsberg and Susan Sontag, as well as the challenges of living on limited financial resources in 70s New York, Peter Hujar’s Day transforms unexpectedly into a Bloomsday-like rumination on both an artist’s life and time itself.
Complementary Colors, Blink Productions, and Primo Content present “Peter Hujar’s Day” in association with We Are Films and Materia Cinema. The film premieres in theaters on November 7. Watch the new trailer below.
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