Blue Moon was a special movie experience in that it was set entirely in a restaurant bar with most of the lines coming from the main character (Lorenz Hart played by Ethan Hawke). The award-winning My Dinner with Andre’ was similar in those respects. So this film about the end of a famous composer/lyricist duo relied upon the real or imagined words of a famous lyricist on the night his former partner opened “Oklahoma” with his new partner, Oscar Hammerstein. The night also included a lovely young woman (played by Margaret Qualley) whom Hart had romantic feelings for.

But if you’re going to let a character fill a movie with a besotted rant, they had better have something special to say.
Hart, it seemed, was a romantic and unlucky in love. But he was also a lyricist, and thus by definition, a poet. Ethan Hawke got the role of lifetime and made it work. If you have a romantic or poetic bone in your body, see this film.

WRH