![]() ![]() ![]() Memphis’s Beale Street is where the blues were said to have been born, and for Baldwin the story that it would tell is one that would sum up black life in 20th-century America. ![]() There’s always a jukebox, a spinning vinyl record, a full moon, to suggest a better world elsewhere. The tone oscillates: seductive, abrasive, seductive - but always beautiful, because Jenkins and his cinematographer, James Laxton, don’t do ugly. With his third feature, an adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins ( Moonlight) has cemented his style: lush and romantic on the surface, hyperrealistic and grim a short flight down. ![]()
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