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.
