Autour de minuit (Round Midnight)

Paris, in the late fifties. American saxophone player Dale Turner moves into a hotel not far from the Blue Note, the jazz club in which he plays every night. With no money to get into the show, music-loving Francis faithfully listens to his idol every evening through a skylight. When the two eventually meet, and Francis realizes that Turner is an alcoholic, a deep friendship takes root between the two men. Francis doesn't like the way this jazz great is treated in the place where he lives, so he borrows money from his estranged wife for "key money" to move into a larger apartment and bring the musician into his own home. "You treat me like a king," Turner tells the French artist. The musician stops drinking and starts composing and recording again. But will it last -- when he is back in New York in his old environment -- without his French friend?