James Baldwin novel receives gauzy treatment in ‘Beale Street’
Dec 14, 2018
3 minutes
“If Beale Street Could Talk” is writer-
director Barry Jenkins’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning movie “Moonlight,” and it shares with that film a woozy poeticism that at times is lyrical and moving and at other times is ... well, just woozy.
“Beale” is based on the 1974 novel by James Baldwin and set in Harlem in the early 1970s. Nineteen-year-old Tish (KiKi Layne) and 22-year-old Fonny (Stephan James) have been friends since childhood,
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