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If Beale Street Could Talk
It is a drama that will not be disguised by a woman named Tish, a Harlem woman who is trying to enter into a strong struggle and to stand up for her lover's innocence. She may be involved in a round-the-clock race to prove her lover's innocence, as he seems to challenge love through the story of a young couple and their families and their lives full of surprises.
29 December 1979, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
29 March 1983, Camden, London, England, UK
2 March 1971, Shkodër, Albania
21 February 1969, San Francisco, California, USA
28 October 1984, Lenox, Massachusetts, USA
4 September 1963, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
16 December 1993, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
23 August 1971, Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
5 August 1962, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
March 02, 2019
Jenkins performs a miracle avoiding bathos while baring raw emotion, presenting the cruelty of the world and its bitter fruit without dulling the love that makes living worthwhile.
February 26, 2019
The score is absolutely amazing, and truthfully, I love everything about this film.
December 26, 2018
This movie works as a timeless romance, a family drama, a legal thriller and a poignant social commentary. A great American novel has been turned into a great American film.
February 22, 2019
I liked it, but I thought the editing was very distracting and it was a little slow in some parts.
March 03, 2019
The formal elegance on display fills, and sometimes overwhelms, the heart.
February 24, 2019
If you're putting together a list of the 10 best films of the year, see If Beale Street Could Talk and you'll only need 9 more.
February 06, 2019
Here is a film almost woozy with its own beauty and dignity, a film going transcendently high in the face of a racist world going low.
February 27, 2019
Jenkins's work should be defining the mainstream...
December 26, 2018
If a powerful kick to your gut's sense of social justice is what you're looking for, you can't do any better.
January 11, 2019
That's pure cinema. What Baldwin does with words, Mr. Jenkins does visually.
February 21, 2019
Just as the novel version of If Beale Street Could Talk moves between love story and protest novel, a balance Baldwin strikes throughout many of his works, Jenkins' adaptation uses flashbacks to oscillate between two worlds.
December 27, 2018
James Laxton's cinematography is even more richly hued than his work on Jenkins's Moonlight, and the sound design and Nicholas Britell's score add to the movie's brimming sensory pleasures.

