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Sundance Film Festival 2025: Day 8 capsules
Peter Hujar's Day, Bubble & Squeak, Brides, Magic Farm, Serious People
By Scott Renshaw except where noted Peter Hujar's Day **** [Premieres] When you describe the latest from director Ira Sachs as two actors performing the transcript of a 50-year-old interview, it hardly sounds like the stuff of stirring cinema—but Sachs turns it into something so layered that it feels like a major work.
The interview in question was conducted on Dec. 19, 1974 in New York, when photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) followed up on the request of his friend, writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall), to chronicle in detail what he did the previous day, no matter how mundane.
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