NYFF Review: Ben Whishaw & Rebecca Hall Bring Minutiae to Beautiful Life in 'Peter Hujar's Day'

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Who here’s a fan of hangout movies? Movies where the plot is secondary to characters just hanging out, having conversations—think My Dinner With Andre or very nearly every Richard Linklater film ever made. (But especially his Before trilogy.) Well if you are a fan, then Passages writer-director Ira Sachs has come up with a honey of a hang-out movie with Peter Hujar’s Day . Starring Ben Whishaw as the eponymous photographer and Rebecca Hall as his good friend, the author Linda Rosenkrantz, this is 76 minutes of heaven—which is to say 76 minutes of hanging out with Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall. And who wouldn’t want to hang out with

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