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.
