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Richard Linklater’s ‘Blue Moon’ Lights Up Berlin as Crowd Goes Wild for Ethan Hawke’s Unrecognizable Transformation Into Lorenz Hart
Ethan Hawke's latest collaboration with Richard Linklater was met with cheers at its Berlin Film Festival world premiere.
Ethan Hawke ‘s transformative turn in “ Blue Moon ” — the actor’s first film in a decade with long-time collaborator Richard Linklater — just brought the house down in Berlin. “The tone of the movie we hoped would be like a Rogers and Hart song — perfectly crafted, witty, melancholic, sad, funny, all of that stuff,” Linklater said on stage afterwards, adding that he’d been working on the film for 12 years but Hawke “was a little too young for the part” originally. Clap-o-meter or not, “Blue Moon” — which is competing for the Golden Bear — looks to have brought the festival its first big, buzzy and starry hit to have actually world premiered in Berlin, which has so far seen the likes of Robert Pattinson and Timothée Chalamet swing by as part of their “Mickey 17” and “A Complete Unknown” tours, respectively.
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