
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.
Runtime
102 Minutes
Country
Ireland, United Kingdom
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 Evans moves through dim apartments, studios and late-night sessions, increasingly withdrawn, as music becomes less performance than process.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
Country
Ireland & United Kingdom
Program Strand
Music on Film
Cinematographer
Piers McGrail
Editor
Adam Biskupski
Cast
Anders Danielsen Lie, Barry Ward, Bill Pullman & Laurie Metcalf
Music
Roger Goula
Genre
Biographical, Drama & Music
