An intoxicating, intimate work from a born filmmaker, «If Beale Street Could Talk» is an elegant poem of a film. «Moonlight’s» Barry Jenkins directs…
An intoxicating, intimate work from a born filmmaker, «If Beale Street Could Talk» is an elegant poem of a film.
«Moonlight’s» Barry Jenkins directs this story of a couple dealing with racial strife in 1970s Harlem. Based on the novel by James Baldwin, «Beale Street» crackles with wit and insight into the way one’s worldview — «the world you move in,» in Baldwin’s words — is shaped, and later reinforced, by their circumstances.
Jenkins uses a slow pace and a soft touch, framing his characters in close ups that read like portraits, their faces telling the story more than the words.
