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    In The Luminous 'If Beale Street Could Talk,' A Perfect Love Meets An Imperfect World

    Director Barry Jenkins follows up Moonlight with this exquisite film adaptation of James Baldwin's novel about the clash between love and racial injustice.
    by Monica Castillo Dec 13, 2018 3 minutes
    Shining Like <em>Moonlight</em>: Tish (KiKi Layne) and Fonny (Stephan James) share a fleeting moment in Barry Jenkins' <em>If Beale Street Could Talk</em>.

    opens with a quote from James Baldwin and a slow, sweeping violin score that will be heard many more times. Tish (KiKi Layne) and Fonny (Stephan James) walk along the edge of a New York City park, with greenery on one side and highways and cityscape on the other. Their clothes are coordinated in yellow and navy as if they belong to one another. The details of this outdoor world soon melt away, leaving only close-ups of the actors' faces. They are looking into each other

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