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Everybody Digs Bill Evans

2026

Everybody Digs Bill Evans

2026

Everybody Digs Bill Evans

Legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans is unmoored by loss in this hauntingly beautiful black and white portrait. Rejecting the conventions of the biopic, it drifts through grief, memory and withdrawal, tracing a private world shaped as much by absence as by the music itself.

Director

Grant Gee

Runtime

102 Minutes

Country

United Kingdom, Ireland

Classification

Unclassified 18+

Legendary pianist Bill Evans (Anders Danielsen Lie) is at the height of his powers when the sudden loss of bassist Scott LaFaro leaves him unmoored. From this rupture emerges a luminous, finely controlled portrait of a life in retreat, circling grief, repetition and the lingering imprint of a close musical partnership. Evans moves through dim apartments, studios and late-night sessions, increasingly withdrawn, as music becomes less performance than process.

Unfolding in fragments, the film traces a private world of quiet disintegration with remarkable precision. Shot in striking black and white, it renders the early 1960s as authentic artefact rather than just period reconstruction. Less a portrait of genius than a study of absence, it lingers in what cannot be played.

“ … elusive, ruminative and very absorbing.”

The Guardian

Berlin – Silver Bear Best Director

Dublin

Melbourne

Film Credits

Director

Grant Gee

Year

2026

Country

United Kingdom & Ireland

Language

English

Type

Feature Fiction

Program Strand

Music on Film

Producer

Alan Maher & Janine Marmot

Writer

Owen Martell & Mark O'Halloran

Cinematographer

Piers McGrail

Editor

Adam Biskupski

Cast

Anders Danielsen Lie, Bill Pullman, Barry Ward & Laurie Metcalf

Music

Roger Goula

Film Source

Mister Smith Entertainment

Genre

Biographical, Drama & Music

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