Sundance: The filmmaker said making dialogue between photographer Peter Hujar and a friend "suspenseful, emotional, not boring, was an interesting challenge."

It's based on a transcript of Hujar's's description of what he did on one day, which in the film becomes anything but ordinary.

Sundance: Whishaw and Hall play 1970s New York artists in a gorgeous monologue of a movie that becomes one you want to live inside.

"Peter Hujar's Day" reunites writer-director Ira Sachs with his "Passages" star Ben Whishaw, and Sachs revealed at TheWrap's Sundance Studio presented by World of Hyatt that his latest effort began while he was still making that searing 2023 relationship drama.

Ira Sachs got fired by his manager. The most indie spirited of independent filmmakers had refused to play the game for too long, and the bill had finally come due. “I understood it in a way,” Sachs, more than a decade and a half-dozen features removed from that experience,

Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall portray Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz in Ira Sach's latest Sundance premiere, 'Peter Hujar's Day'

One of cinema’s great challenges, how to film two people in a room talking, is answered to beautiful effect in Peter Hujar’s Day – although strictly speaking, the room is a New York apartment, with a brief detour to the roof.