andrew scott – Cinema Perspective

It’s been thirty years since the first collaboration between actor Ethan Hawke and filmmaker Richard Linklater, when they began working on the now beloved ‘Before’ trilogy. They have reunited for period piece Blue Moon which, like a lot of the director’s work, takes place across one day – or one evening in this case to be more specific.

Set almost entirely in a New York City bar in 1943, the historical snapshot plot centres around troubled lyricist Lorenz Hart (Hawke) after he attends the opening night of stage musical Oklahoma! on Broadway. Feeling bitter about his writing partner Richard Rodgers’ (Andrew Scott) success in his new duo with Oscar Hammerstein II, he distracts himself and everyone else around him by regaling them with stories of his infatuation for Elizabeth Weiland (Margaret Qualley), a 20-year-old student who he claims is his latest protégé.

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Throughout his career, writer and director Andrew Haigh has excelled in demonstrating the richness of relationships on screen, from fleeting passion in Weekend to an enduring companionship in 45 Years. His latest effort is romance drama All of Us Strangers, based on the 1987 novel by Taichi Yamada. The plot follows screenwriter Adam (Andrew Scott) who lives a lonely existence in a desolate London tower block. After a fire drill in his building, he has a brief encounter with neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal) who makes a drunken pass at him. Nights later, whilst looking for inspiration for his next script, he visits his suburban childhood home only to find that his mother (Claire Foy) and father (Jamie Bell) are still there, just as he remembers them, despite having been killed in a car accident around thirty years earlier.

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