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If Beale Street Could Talk honors its source material with a beautifully filmed adaptation that finds director Barry Jenkins further strengthening his visual and narrative craft. Read...
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Nov 7, 2018 · Set in the 1970s in New York’s Harlem and Greenwich Village neighbourhoods, Beale Street introduces its main characters in a lyrical scene, as an overhead shot views them walking in a park on a...
Feb 8, 2019 · Barry Jenkins follows up on his Oscar-winning film Moonlight with the even more impressive If Beale Street Could Talk, an adaptation of a James Baldwin novel. Shot in a hyper-lyrical...
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Dec 14, 2018 · Set in early-1970s Harlem, If Beale Street Could Talk is a timeless and moving love story of both a couple's unbreakable bond and the African-American family's empowering embrace, as told through the eyes of 19-year old Tish Rivers (KiKi Layne).
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Sep 10, 2018 · If Beale Street Could Talk is a devastating yet warm snapshot of the African American experience from Barry Jenkins.
If Beale Street Could Talk will take you on a journey of visual ecstasy with narrative beats that create a solid adaptation of James Baldwin's emotional material. (pub date: Sept 2018)
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Oct 19, 2021 · The first-ever film adaptation of a fictional work by James Baldwin, Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk suffuses with moments like these, of visual poetry that invites the viewer into the pure, ecstatic love of the two protagonists. Yet the injustice they face in a society that treats that love as defiance equally defines it.
