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   Jan 1, 2001 · May 10, 2020. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin is a an angry and sometimes brutal love story set in the Bronx, New York.Tish is 19 and pregnant - her partner Fonny is a couple of years older and in prison, falsely accused of rape. Tish’s family are close and supportive. Fonny’s are stiff and judgemental.

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3. www.reddit.com › ggbt7n › if_beale_street_could_talkIf Beale Street Could Talk : r/TrueFilm - Reddit

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   If Beale Street Could Talk. I rewatched if Beale street could talk, and can I just say wow. Such a beautiful film. Great acting from everyone. The music helps set the tone so well. The directing is shot on. Everything about this movie is sincere and quiet and soft, but it still has such a presence. It's strong.

4. slate.com › culture › 2019James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk: the critical ...

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   Jan 25, 2019 · Carrying the banner for social justice into the 1970s, he meant Beale Street to be a forceful reminder that all had not been overcome just yet. Nearly 45 years later, Jenkins has adapted Beale ...

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   Feb 4, 2019 · Immersing us in yet another evocative colour palette, Jenkins trades the cool blues and purples of Moonlight for the warm shades of gold, red and green. In love, rage and heartbreak, Jenkins brings an emotional heat to the screen that smoulders long after it goes dark. A gem not to miss. If Beale Street Could talk is in cinemas from Friday 8 ...

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   Feb 10, 2019 · “If Beale Street Could Talk” is narrated by nineteen year old Tish who has become pregnant by her fiancé Fonny who she's been close to most of her life. They've found their own place to live in Harlem and received a blessing from Tish's father to marry, but their plans collapse when Fonny is falsely accused of rape and imprisoned.

7. www.scribd.com › document › 92733995Review On If Beale Street Could Talk | PDF | Racism ... - Scribd

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   This document summarizes and reviews the novel "If Beale Street Could Talk" by James Baldwin. It provides context about the author and the novel's central love story between Tish and Fonny, whose happiness is disrupted when Fonny is falsely imprisoned. The summary notes that the novel depicts the discrimination and unfair treatment faced by the black community at the time through realistic ...

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   Did if Beale Street could talk flop?

   • James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk: the critical response and Barry Jenkins’ adaptation. James Baldwin’s novel flopped in 1974. But Barry Jenkins’ film reveals the timely masterpiece it was. James Baldwin; a scene from the film adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk. Photo illustration by Slate.

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   What is if Beale Street could talk about?

   • If Beale Street Could Talk may have been a story about the redemptive power of love, but it was written in the absolute conviction that “blood” was “on the wind” and that the powers that be were not long for this world.

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   Why did the literary establishment not know if Beale Street could talk?

   • In short, the literary establishment didn’t know what to do with If Beale Street Could Talk because it didn’t know what to do with a white readership steadily turning its back on civil rights. Baldwin had intuited this when he called the novel his strangest.

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   Why did Baldwin write Beale Street?

   • Baldwin’s intention was to hold these two storylines—of a couple falling in love and of a family facing adversity—together, to show that they were beautifully, terribly intertwined. Such was the condition of being black in America. But the message fell on deaf ears when Beale Street came out.

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   Why is Beale Street so strange?

   • That’s because it manages to convey the strangeness at the heart of the book: a romance that turns on social outrage, a family drama that’s also a searing protest against the carceral state. This strangeness nearly consigned Beale Street to oblivion when it was published by the Dial Press in 1974.

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   When did Beale Street come out?

   • In a clear sign of those changes, Dial’s parent company, Dell, passed on the chance to release the paperback edition of Beale Street. Instead, New American Library, a reprint house with whom Baldwin hadn’t published in more than a decade, brought out the mass-market edition in early 1975.

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9. hypercritic.org › collection › barry-jenkins-ifIf Beale Street Could Talk | A story of ecstatic love

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   Oct 19, 2021 · In If Beale Street Could Talk he plays to the strengths of the expressionist aesthetic he developed in his 2016 Oscar-winning Moonlight. Pulsing, saturated colors, soft lighting, tightly framed faces, and Wong Kar Wai -inspired moments of wordless dialogue (accompanied by Britell ’s symphonic score) flavor Beale Street with as much of Jenkins’ style as Baldwin’s.