Barry Jenkins: "You have to love through pain"

The director of Oscar-winning Moonlight cements his powerful reputation with his adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk

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Alannah Francis

BARRY JENKINS is in love – with black love. He might not have publicly said as much, but his films proclaim it. In If Beale Street Could Talk, his first feature film after the best picture Oscar-winning Moonlight, Jenkins is yet again exploring the interaction of love and pain. In doing so and in the way he does, he’s cementing his reputation as a filmmaker who can expertly capture the essence of these powerful themes – and more poignantly how they are experienced through the black lens.

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