My fellow Facebook Marketplace addicts and secondhand-furniture aficionados haggling their way to apartment nirvana: I have found the inspiration mother lode in Peter Hujar’s Day .

The new biographical drama from Passages director Ira Sachs takes place entirely in a single gorgeous apartment. The film recreates a 1974 conversation between the American writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall) and renowned photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw), recorded as part of a tape series about how people spend their days. Hujar recounts the events of his December 18 in granular detail, from photographing the poet Allen Ginsberg for the New York Times to getting woken up by sex workers, eating a rye sandwich, and stressing over money. Sometimes, in the movie, the friends put on a record o

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