The Quiet Beauty of Barry Jenkins’s Hit "Moonlight"
"Moonlight" follows the story of a poor, black, gay boy growing up in downtown Miami at the height of the 1980s crack epidemic.
An adaptation of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play director Barry Jenkins’s new movie, follows the first three decades of a poor, black, gay boy growing up in at the height of the 1980s crack epidemic. Put like that, you might expect something gritty, hard-hitting and faux-documentary in approach—a sun-soaked version of . In our current cinematic culture of Spandex-clad superheroes, the subject matter feels as fascinatingly far-flung as a news report from Mars. Yet without relinquishing his unfakeable
