![]() ![]() ![]() If Beale Street Could Talk tells the burgeoning love story of Tish Rivers (Kiki Layne) and Alonzo ‘Fonny’ Hunt (Stephan James) set agains the 1960s. Yes, you’ve seen this film before but what lifts this and makes it a decent watch is the way the female characters are portrayed on screen, neither exotic or functional but real and complex. What we have is essentially a love story with a heavy dose of social commentary in the form of police brutality and corruption, black men incarcerated enslaved by the State, and their women left to raise children. In total contrast to Moonlight, this time around he has adapted a book by the titan of black literature James Baldwin. If Beale Street Could Talk is the latest offering from the Oscar winning writer/director Barry Jenkins. ![]()
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