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Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Plot
New York, June 1961. Pianist Bill Evans (Anders Danielsen Lie) believes he has finally found the perfect trio. His chemistry with bassist Scott LaFaro is rare, and the group's music is at its peak.
Then LaFaro dies. Evans sinks into grief, and the question left hanging is simple and frightening: can he still play? The film skips the usual biopic route through a whole career. It stays in that pause, a still and quiet stretch in the musician's life, and looks at the family around him: his father Harry (Bill Pullman), his mother Mary (Laurie Metcalf) and his brother Harry Jr. (Barry Ward).
Everybody Digs Bill Evans adapts Owen Martell's novel Intermission, from a script by Mark O'Halloran. Director Grant Gee, who comes from music documentaries, shot part of it on 16mm and in black and white. The title comes from the album Evans released in 1959.
Based on the 2013 novel Intermission by Owen Martell
Official trailer
Awards and nominees
- Berlin Film Festival 2026 · Best Director
Trivia
- Principal photography took place in County Cork, Ireland, starting in May 2025.
- The album that gives the film its name came out in 1959, a few months before Evans played on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue.
- Grant Gee won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2026 Berlinale. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave it 4 out of 5 stars.
Cast
- Bill EvansAnders Danielsen Lie
- Harry EvansBill Pullman
- Mary EvansLaurie Metcalf
- Harry Evans Jr.Barry Ward
- Pat EvansKatie McGrath
- Ellaine SchultzValene Kane
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
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