In their review of Blue Moon,The Guardian calls Richard Linklater’s latest film a “bitter Broadway breakup drama.” But it’s not the kind of breakup we’re used to hearing about—it’s not in love, but in work. The split in question is between the lyricist Lorenz Hart and composer Richard Rodgers, the songwriting duo behind classics like My Funny Valentine (1937), The Lady is a Tramp (1937),and, as the title suggests, Blue Moon (1934).By the early 1940s, Hart had become unreliable, disappearing on drinking binges for days at a time. Rogers moved on. Their split is the subject of Linklater’s film, set around the 1943 premiere of Oklahoma!, the first musical Rodgers—played by Andrew Scott—wrote with his new partner, Oscar Hammerstein. The focus, though, is on Hart—played by Ethan Hawke—his sinking to despair, his drinking, his bisexuality, and his love for the young university student Elizabeth Weiland, played by Margaret Qualley. —Jeanne Malle