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technically accomplished, with beautiful impressionistic city/sky-scapes accompanying morgan's music, but suffers from inappropriately low emotional stakes. morgan's rise in the jazz world doesn't come across as significantly unique, and little attention is paid to morgan's interior life or the demons that may have propelled him to drug abuse, redemption, betrayal and his own murder. in the end, the dramatic stakes are too low to elevate the movie to the tragedy that its central event demands. still, very lovely treatment of morgan's music throughout, and adapts well to the imbalance between... read
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