When "Moonlight" came out in 2016, it was unlike anything that had come before it. Based on the play, "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue" written by Tarell Alvin McCraney, the film follows Chiron, a young Black man, throughout his childhood and early adult life living in Miami, Florida. It is a movie about many things — masculinity (particularly Black masculinity), sexuality, the way our past affects our future — and it is significant in how it centers Black narratives, treating them with a tenderness that has inspired many Black filmmakers and helped to usher in a long overdue renaissance in Black filmmaking.
But before "Moonlight" won the Oscar for Best Picture, Jenkins had worked on one other film eight years earlier: An indie flick, "Medicine for Melancholy," about a Black couple who, after having a one-night-stand, spend the next day exploring the streets of San Francisco. This film garnered a lot of quiet praise,...
But before "Moonlight" won the Oscar for Best Picture, Jenkins had worked on one other film eight years earlier: An indie flick, "Medicine for Melancholy," about a Black couple who, after having a one-night-stand, spend the next day exploring the streets of San Francisco. This film garnered a lot of quiet praise,...
- 2/5/2023
- by Miyako Pleines
- Slash Film
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