A famous jazz saxophonist whose life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.
Writer/Director: Paul Auster
Stars: Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, Willem Dafoe, Mandy Patinkin, Vanessa Redgrave.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125879/
Watched online, ok print; ordered dvd for c.track, which is good.
No songs in the Soundtracks, and that's about right.
Interesting, quirky, with a disappointing but logical ending. Really a mood piece more than a story piece, although it has definite plot.
Bizarre that it's tagged Music, since we only get a tiny bit at the very beginning. They should have made HK a watchmaker or a diamond cutter who just lost his dominant hand (broken beyond repair to its prior level of dexterity.) But musician allows him to be famous too, so that MS will trust him at first contact.
I'm not going to reveal anything about the story for future viewings. The mood here reminds me of Death Watch ('80), another HK film.
Rated 6.3 (3,674)
indie, dir. Auster; 7
