Overview
- Critics from the New Yorker and the Los Angeles Times highlight a talk-driven film that treats the interview itself as the drama.
- The source transcript, recorded on December 19, 1974, resurfaced in 2019 in the Morgan Library’s Hujar archives and was published by Magic Hour Press in 2021.
- Sachs uses the text largely verbatim and confines the action to Rosenkrantz’s apartment, avoiding flashbacks and archival clips.
- Visible production elements, jump cuts, and Alex Ashe’s textured 16mm cinematography foreground the movie’s constructed, present-tense feel.
- Ben Whishaw plays Hujar opposite Rebecca Hall as Rosenkrantz, with the film framed as an elegy for Hujar and the downtown art community he left behind after his 1987 AIDS-related death.