Film

Medicine for Melancholy

Director
Barry Jenkins
Certificate
18
Running Time
88 mins

Unreleased in the UK, Oscar winning Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk director Barry Jenkins’ 2008 feature debut is a romantic drama that takes the Before Sunset/Sunrise approach by following a young couple (Wyatt Cenac, Tracey Heggins) during a single day in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco.

The film gets its first Bristol screening as part of the Watershed’s In the Mood for Barry Jenkins Sunday brunch season.

 

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By robin askew, Thursday, Jan 24 2019

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  • Drama
  • Romance

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