Ira Sachs’s latest delicately stages a 50-year-old conversation between a writer and a photographer.
Peter Hujar’s Day, which premiered here at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, is just two actors—Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall—acting out the transcript as they move around an apartment, have a light meal, and smoke some cigarettes. That may not sound like a terribly dynamic premise for a film. It is certainly a reduction in scale from Sach’s last film, the lively and thoughtful relationship dramedy Passages.
Hujar was assuredly one of those people, even if his contributions were only fully appreciated after his death from AIDS complications in 1987. What we hear in Sachs’s film suggests that Hujar was an oddball wit who approached matters of sex and career and even food with a pleasant frankness. This is just a man having a conversation with a friend , and that casual context allows for something more revealing than a formal interview might.
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