David Rayfiel

Joe Turner is a CIA agent with the code name: Condor. When his entire office is massacred, Turner goes on the run from his enemies, not to mention his so-called allies. After reporting the murders to his superiors, the organization wants to bring Condor in, but somebody is trying to take him out. In his frantic hunt for answers, and in a desperate run for his life, Turner abducts photographer Kathy Hale and eventually seduces her into helping him....

Separated from his wife, an architect has an affair with a writer, but remains emotionally torn between the two women, leaving his future happiness, and that of his 13-year-old daughter, hanging in the balance.

It is a love letter from director Bertrand Tavernier to the heyday of bebop and to the Black American musicians who found refuge in the smoky underground jazz clubs of 1950s Paris. In a miraculous, sui generis fusion of performer and character that was nominated for an Oscar, legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon plays Dale Turner, a brilliant New York jazz veteran whose music aches with beauty but whose personal life is ravaged by addiction. Searching...