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The endearing movie that affirms creativity as a human act

Peter Hujar’s Day began, as many great works of art do, with a DM. Director Ira Sachs (Passages, The Delta) had just finished reading a recently unearthed interview between the late portrait photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz that took place in 1974. That dialogue – a conversation about creative anxieties, complete with the mundanities of daily life – had been published as a book in 2022.

So Sachs decided to message Rosenkrantz on Instagram about what would eventually become a film adaptation starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall as Peter and Linda. Deceptively simple and surprisingly moving, Peter Hujar’s Day recreates t …

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