Peter Hujar's Day

2025

Action / Biography / Drama / History

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 92% · 99 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 92%
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 1134 1.1K

new york city based on novel or book photographer 1970s interview biography

Director

Ira Sachs Photo
Ira Sachs

Top cast

Rebecca Hall Photo
Rebecca Hall as Linda Rosenkrantz
Ben Whishaw Photo
Ben Whishaw as Peter Hujar
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700.43 MB
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23.976 fps
1 hr 16 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by peter0969 7 / 10

Dialogue-filled poetic experience

Watched at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.Ira Sachs is an interesting indie filmmaker who explored about humane individuals and the characters involving around life. With this small scale joint, despite being one of his weaker works, the dialogue and strong performances from Rebecca Hall and Ben Whishaw manages to make a dialogue filled poetic engagement for a story.Examining on the life of Peter Hujar, the simple scale setting, narrative and direction offers a good glimpse of the past. As if we are witnessing a conversation that isn't seen much but through the lens of the past to now. With solid camerawork and production, Hall and Whishaw have great dynamics between their dialogue and personalities which makes them interesting to observe. Despite its short runtime, the pacing does end up somewhat feeling tedious towards it middle act and Sachs seems to lose a little of his sense and approach on certain aspects, especially with how it ends.Otherwise, Sachs continues to show his talents for the indie works of filmmaking.
Reviewed by KevinH-350 6 / 10

Real and Intimate

The movie did a great job of keeping everything simple. It's exactly what it promised to be, an interview about a day of Peter Hujar. Sound design was pretty convincing, and helped to build the overall vibe. Editing was a bit unnatural, and drew attention from the interview itself, especially the flashy white frames and sudden loud music sections. Overall satisfying yet nothing surprising, just like a normal day of life.
Reviewed by ferguson-6 7 / 10

Topaz Caucasian

Greetings again from the darkness. "How was your day?" It's a question we have each asked and been asked thousands of times. In 1974, writer Linda Rosenkrantz thought the answer to the question would make a fascinating book ... considering her plan was to talk to her New York City artist friends. She had already written her best-selling book "Talk" (1968), and her idea with this new project was to discover how people fill up their day.Director Ira Sachs (LITTLE MEN, 2016) opens the film with a note explaining that the recorded tapes of the conversation between Linda and famed photographer Peter Hujar on December 19, 1974, were misplaced. It wasn't until 2019 when the typed transcript of their conversation was recovered that the idea of publication and a dramatized film version gathered strength. Ben Whishaw (WOMEN TALKING, 2022) plays Peter Hujar and Rebecca Hall (CHRISTINE, 2016) portrays Linda. These two, along with a tape recorder and Linda's apartment, are the key characters in what, perhaps even more effectively, could have been a stage presentation. Although it's not textbook cinema to film two characters having a long conversation, there is no denying the artistry to this film.Still, this is a full run of two friends basically hanging out as one recounts the minutiae of his previous day. With Hujar being a well-known photographer, his name-dropping is probably more impressive than yours or mine. Susan Sontag and William Burroughs come up, and Hujar's contract with the 'New York Times' to photograph Allen Ginsburg takes up much of the day's energy. Whishaw's take on Hujar's oversharing can be interesting to watch - especially when he loses his train of thought and Hall's Linda is there to rein him back in. The film surely works best as a time capsule of 1970's artsy NYC, but tell me more about this "Topaz Caucasian".Opening in NYC and Los Angeles on November 7, 2025.
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