Film
Moonlight
- Director
- Barry Jenkins
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 111 mins
The Oscar winning second feature by Barry Jenkins, whose indie hipster romance Medicine for Melancholy didn’t get a full UK release after being screened at the London Film Festival back in 2008, Moonlight was one of many films to benefit from the #oscarssowhite controversy.
Adapted from Tarell Alvin McCraney‘s stage play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, this timely and lauded exploration of African-American masculinity dodges coming-of-age conventions as it follows a young gay man named Chiron from childhood to adulthood in a depressed, drug-ridden Miami neighbourhood. He’s played by three different actors, though it’s Trevante Rhodes‘ performance as the adult Chiron that has won most of the plaudits. Go here for our full review.
It’s back on screen in the Watershed’s Films That Love the Cinema season, celebrating the ‘shed’s welcome post-lockdown return to action.
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