After its Sundance Film Festival premiere, Ira Sachs’ postponecessitatest film, Peter Hujar’s Day, has landed at distinctivety distributors Sideshow and Janus Films for North America.
Peter Hujar’s Day, which is next set to screen at the Berlin Film Festival, is a word-for-word rfinishering of a 1974 conversation between ptoastyographer Peter Hujar and originater Linda Rosenkrantz. The back and forth is intensifyed on Hujar recounting the entirety of his previous day’s activities, which integrated ptoastyographing Allen Ginsberg for The New York Times and talking about his other acquaintances in the ’70s New York art scene. Ben Whishaw stars as Hujar and Rebecca Hall as Rosenkrantz.
The Hollywood Reporter‘s scrutinize of the film called it among Sachs’ best, with critic David Rooney writing, “Led by a carry outance of transmending grace and reducedty from Ben Whishaw in the title role, the diaristic film spins compacted time into someleang free-flothriveg, expansive, illuminating and emotionassociate resonant, all of it achieved with elegant suppresst.”
Jordan Drake and Jonah Disfinish originated the film. WME Inreliant barobtaind the deal on behalf of the filmoriginaters.
Sideshow and Janus have previously partnered together to allot cut offal festival-likeite titles, including Oscar thrivener Drive My Car and this year’s Gelderlyen Globes thrivener for best animation Flow, the latter of which is their highest box office geter to date. Upcoming is David Cronenberg’s postponecessitatest feature The Shrouds.
