Bertrand Tavernier (1941 - 2021)

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Tavernier's Round Midnight turned me into a jazz fan. Of course I had been exposed to lots of jazz -- as a child of the 1970s/1980s I would hear it often on even quite mainstream TV and radio shows -- but this film was the experience that made me go, "Ah!" 

I saw it at the Everyman cinema in Hampstead, north London and remember emerging afterwards, really high on what I had just seen and heard, and a middle-aged lady behind me saying: "Well that was one of the worst films I've ever seen."