Overview
- The film draws largely from a 1974 conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz, whose transcript surfaced at the Morgan Library in 2019 and was published by Magic Hour Press in 2021.
- Ben Whishaw portrays Hujar opposite Rebecca Hall as Rosenkrantz, with Sachs staging their talk in her Upper East Side apartment across a single day’s interview.
- Rather than depicting events, the movie relies on extended dialogue without flashbacks or archival footage, inviting viewers to picture the described scenes.
- Sachs foregrounds craft choices—slate and boom visible, untrimmed film heads and tails, long takes, and spare closeups—with cinematography by Alex Ashe.
- Hujar recounts a bustling December 18, 1974—calls from an editor and Susan Sontag, photographing Allen Ginsberg for the Times, meetings with peers, and late darkroom work—underscoring themes of memory and loss after his 1987 death from AIDS.