Everybody Digs Bill Evans premiered this weekend at the 76th Berlin International Film Festival, where it is competing for the Golden Bear. Instead of a conventional biopic, director Grant Gee opted for a restrained, introspective look at one of the darkest periods in the jazz pianist’s life. The death of his colleague Scott LaFaro sends Evans on a path of quiet but relentless self-destruction that Evans’s family is desperate to pull him out of, but seems ill-equipped to handle.
