'Blue Moon' Review — Lorenz Hart biopic hokey, boring | Film Reviews

What possessed Richard Linklater to make two different movies about other artists — filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard and lyricist Lorenz Hart — in the same year?

And why are both films so boring? I was disappointed in “Nouvelle Vague,” the dull Godard one, which achieved faithful impressions but had nothing much of its own to say.

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